This article centers the stories of two eighth grade students in the context of a social action literacy project. Their teacher designed curriculum that scaffolded opportunities for them to address English language arts standards while speaking out for social change. The students' responses to the project reveal their civic literacy practices, as…

Discusses the benefits of having elementary school students do nonstop writing for a few minutes. (DD)

Urges teachers to write constructive comments on students' compositions. (DD)

Discusses 10 rules of thumb for writing educational research reports that are concise and accessible. The principles include writing in terms of people, emphasizing the positive, editing for simplicity, and breaking any of the previously discussed rules when necessary. (HTH)

Writing poems about sports is a way to incorporate writing skills in a language experience approach to poetry. (JH)

Children must develop a sense of audience, learn what writing is for, evaluate their own writing, and have a self-felt purpose for writing. (DD)

Questions the wisdom of having elementary school students use a thesaurus when they write. (JL)

Suggests ways of developing student skills in writing letters of request. (RL)

Discusses a group of Ojibway Indian children whose culture is in a transitional stage in terms of literacy to see what the acquisition of reading and writing means to them. (DD)

Suggests ways to guide students in the skills of plot development so that they produce interesting fiction. (DD)

The four stages of writing development in the elementary grades are writing readiness, dictation, independent writing, and language experimentation. (DD)

Suggests ways in which a teacher-student dialogue can help students learn to rewrite their compositions. (DD)

Learning to write in the preschool years does occur for some children in homes which offer models of writing in natural settings. (JH)

Suggests ways of using limericks to teach creative writing. (DD)

Presents suggestions for teachers to help writing students understand when and when not to revise their writing. (HTH)