The study of psycholinguistics seems to enable English teachers to make their classes more effective and more enjoyable. (JH)

Describes activities and exercises that develop children's music appreciation and general listening skills, preparing them for composing original lyrics and music. (RL)

Discusses diverse examples of literary devices by comparing metaphor and humor. Defines and illustrates paronomasia, paradox, oxymoron, anacoluthon, zeugma, parody, jargon, satire, conceit, anachronism, hyperbole, cacography, understatement, and doggerel. A humorous appendix contrasts errors with rhetorical devices. (NKA)

Provides eight sequential, process-oriented writing assignments: (1) diagnostic essay, (2) personal account, (3) ghost writing, (4) summary, (5) developing a thesis, (6) exploratory essay, (7) proposal, and (8) final paper. (HTH)

Describes a creative writing and reading class assignment in which each student was required to make a 20-minute presentation as a catalyst for student writing (such as a poem, song, object, or picture). (EL)

A turn-of-the-century printing press motivates elementary students to write. Children write, edit, and print their own stories on the Greenwood School Press. This self-supporting enterprise introduces children to various aspects of writing and producing literature. (DF)

Discusses the teaching of imaginative writing in the content area at the middle school level and indicates potential applications for such teaching at all levels. Contains extensive writing examples. (FL)

Argues that creative writing in schools should be considered as the writing students do that approximates forms of literature--literature being a broad discourse term for a number of genres, but especially the narrative and the lyric. (HOD)

Describes a successful in-class exercise that forces students without their knowing to form their own methods of patterning in order to reach understanding of a work and to begin to assign symbolic value to items in a work. (CRH)

Describes her experiences with an innovative approach to the teaching of poetry to five ninth grade English classes. (RB)

Methods for blending the language of the street with the language of the library, the integration of the language of film, a visual and oral languae, with the written language of great literature and good composition. (Author)

Haku Mele," Hawaiian for poet, describes a poetry workshop for high school poetry-lovers led by college students. (SW)