Methods for teaching learning disabled students task specific and metacognitive strategies to use when writing include self-instructional strategy training, task and learner analysis, training evaluation, development of vocabulary diversity, content generation and planning, and revision training. Seven steps for teaching creative writing are…

Provides a step-by-step approach to teaching students the elements of poetry, such as similes, acrostics, metaphors, and odes. Copies of handouts are included. (HTH)

Sets forth methods for helping children of limited ability create poetry. Includes a poem written by a student classified as "dyslexic." (FL)

Describes the way one teacher used Raymond Queneau's "Exercices de style" in a college-level French composition course. The students prepared 15 to 20 assignments, which focused on grammar and syntax, logical development of ideas, changes in perspective, shifts in mood or tonality, and experiments with different literary genres. (SED)

Suggests that classroom exploration of the renga, a chain poem developed in eighth-century Japan, can awaken students' sense of the choices and constraints in writing. (MM)

Team writing and shared ideas are interpersonal experiences that motivate children to write. (JH)

Discusses a unit in which students rewrite Ray Bradbury's short stories into short plays, emphasizing the importance of dialog. (RB)

Relates the processes involved in Story Workshop from both the student's and the director's point of view. (TO)

Describes techniques to encourage students in creative writing. (MB)

Advice to teachers on how to deal with student errors, and a discussion of the analogy between writing and film technique." (Author/SP)

Author describes teaching unit of Rod McKuen poems for sixth grade class study. (RY)

Argues against the use of rigid syllabuses for the teaching of literature and advocates instead a seminar approach in which students are required to read and think beforehand, with one or two of them having been given specific assignments as stimuli to discussion. (HOD)

Describes a five-step creative writing program designed to improve student language skills. (JL)