Examines motives that can serve as the framework for a creative composition course and suggests some specific creative writing procedures. (DD)

The five approaches to the teaching of writing presented in this article represent different assumptions and different views of writing; it is suggested that the teacher may select one or more of these theories as appropriate for use by individual students. (JD)

Ways are outlined in which the elementary school teacher can develop a program to improve the writing skills of students. (JD)

Presents techniques for reading and writing poetry with intermediate grade children. (AA)

Specific techniques for encouraging the writing of poetry. (AA)

Asserts that the greatest hindrance to creativity is what students have learned about school and describes exercises to encourage the creative writing process. (KS)

Just as spoken language is intended to be heard by an audience, written language aims to be read by an audience. In helping kids learn to write, teachers have ignored this crucial fact. The article discusses how a high school English teacher on the Navajo Indian Reservation got the students to do poetry and other creative writing. (Author/NQ)

Presents an assignment sequence, based on James Moffett's sequence of narrative types, designed to teach the various points of view most often used by authors. Provides instructions, including names of model texts for students to write pieces imitating such narrative techniques as interior monologue, correspondence, dramatic monologue, diary,…

Describes two poetry models that encourage the students to begin writing with the literal facts--the concrete--and allow the more abstract meaning to emerge from there. (CRH)

Teachers are responsible for delivering, selecting, and implementing learning activities for their classrooms. They must consider the best approaches to engage their students as well as to meet the school's standards in instruction. Here is a practical how-to book to supplement the social studies curriculum. It places at the teacher's disposal,…

Addresses a plea for exacting, longitudinal observations of children in their development as boys and girls through the writing process. (Author/RB)

Presents step by step procedures for a student writing project for seventh graders. (RB)