Presents four brief suggestions regarding methods for teaching poetry writing, descriptive writing, and vocabulary. (TJ)

Displays student work in "portrait exercises"--writing designed to give students a feel for characterization and to prepare them for future writing. (RL)

When assigned to do parodies of literary works, students explore a variety of legitimate parodic relationships of significant critical interest. (DD)

Discusses a poetry writing workshop for teachers and describes its benefits. (DD)

Describes a creative writing course offered to 60 inmates of China state prison and involving class discussion of literature. (DD)

Presents an interview with the author's husband and daughter, both English professors, in order to better understand what is involved in teaching short stories. (SG)

This article presents 15 activities designed to motivate students to engage in creative writing. Also given are ideas on how to reinforce and maintain student interest in writing. (IAH)

Describes how students enjoy poetry by writing cinquain poems. Provides an example lesson leading to a completed cinquain poem about tulips. (MM)

Describes a method of teaching Edgar Allan Poe's writings which uses writing as a tool to decipher the story and to teach a valuable lesson in creative writing and style, and which shows students how a text changes when it is either abridged or adapted. (SR)

Presents a series of three lessons based on found poems. Including a discussion on what poetry is; developing a poetic; and sharing poetry with others through peer analysis and small group discussion of each student's found poem. (RAE)

Uses Theodore Roethke's poem "The Old Florist" to illustrate the model, or structural, approach to teaching poetry writing (where students discover the operating structure of a poem in order to write their own). Discusses the student poems it inspired to show the potential of this approach. (SR)

Gives advice for the beginning teacher by narrating the experiences of one teacher's childhood and explaining how these experiences shaped the teacher's professional outlook. Concentrates on one of the teacher's memories of his childhood experiences with his grandmother. (HB)

Describes how one English teacher, in conjunction with an art teacher, linked writing poetry with student art. Recounts the pairing of student artists with student poets. Explains the benefits of such a learning arrangement, in which an artist tries to capture graphically the meaning of a poem. (HB)

Describes how one teacher taught poetry and its principles by relying mainly on poems written by her former and current students. Comments on why this approach seemed to bring out in students a true appreciation of poetry. (HB)

Details the creative writing software program called "Kid Works 2" and claims that it is a solid and useful means of inspiring and fostering creative writing among young students. (HB)