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Noethe, Sheryl; Collom, Jack – Teachers and Writers, 1994
Describes five poetry assignments and presents examples of students' poetry written in response to the assignments. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Poetry, Student Writing Models
Hermsen, Terry – Teachers and Writers, 1994
Presents five lessons designed to use art to inspire students to write. Notes that students can gain a certain focus from art but that they can also veer toward writing shapeless, rambling stories that fail to create pictures in the reader's mind. (RS)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Expression, Elementary Secondary Education, Lesson Plans
Colin, Barbara Flug – Teachers and Writers, 1994
Discusses the experiences of a poetry writing teacher who teaches poetry to second-grade through high school physically challenged children using art as inspiration. Includes numerous examples of students' poetry, which demonstrate the depth, variety, complexity, and originality that art can bring out. (RS)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Expression, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Willis, Meredith Sue – Teachers and Writers, 1993
Discusses revision as a form of learning and as a response to all kinds of literature, whether imitating what went before, reacting against it, or making something genuinely new of it. Offers numerous writing activities based on this idea. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Revision (Written Composition), Student Writing Models
Landsman, Julie – Teachers and Writers, 1993
Focuses on releasing students' creative impulses, their imaginations, and their memories. Discusses a set of reading and writing activities that have been used with all kinds of students in a wide variety of settings. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Poetry