Concludes a three-part series on writing and the visual arts. Turns to the character of montage construction, pointing to examples in a wide range of media and offering ideas for introducing montage methods into the writing classroom. (MG)

Provides six tips for teachers to help them become helpful writing coaches to their students. (MG)

Provides tips for comic book writing that have been gathered from actual comic book authors and can be used in minilessons for writing workshops in the classroom. Focuses on five specific components of comic book writing: plot development, layout, drawing, narration, and the cover page. (MG)

Discusses approaches for writing teachers to use when teaching how to write a persuasive essay using the word processor. (MG)

Focuses on how educators can teach writing well, with a particular emphasis upon revision. Discusses the prewriting stage, prewriting conferences, drafting, revision, directed revision practice, and evaluation. (MG)

Shares how a teacher helped students learn about the concerns of people who come from different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds by having them write poetry from the point of view of literary characters in literature which they read. Points out how this helps students weave literature, history, social analysis, writing, and classroom…

Discusses the process of revision and the teacher's role in helping students learn to revise their writing effectively. Lists five revision principles. (MG)

Looks at the way thinking has changed regarding one specific application: using word processors to teach writing to students with learning disabilities. Reviews research done in this area. (MG)

Shares how middle school students easily learned to use the CD-ROM for their writing and research activities. (MG)

Describes the interactive multimedia essay, HyperCard, and MediaText, and the benefits of what they offer for secondary writing classrooms. (MG)

Describes the program Learning Circles on the AT&T Learning Network in which groups of six to eight classes from around the world cooperatively on a common theme designed to extend classroom learning and provide a purpose, audience, and motivation for research and writing. (MG)

Discusses how the computer can be used to help students learn to revise their writing through peer review, rereading their writing, and reacting and reshaping their writing in response to their peer's comments. (MG)

Describes a writing strategy that teaches students how to write a first person narrative and revise for more exact and fresh vocabulary words. (MG)

Discusses the work of Beatrix Potter as an artist and natural scientist. Presents three classroom projects which integrate technology, fine art, aesthetics, writing, and science. (MG)

Describes a literature, writing, and art activity using the Russian folktale "The Turnip" to help kindergarten students recognize and appreciate the ways in which children, families, and cultures are alike. (MG)