Elementary school students in the third, fourth, and fifth grades were asked to do three different tasks in an attempt to determine how frequently children at these various ages use figurative language. Results for a Composition Task showed that children tend to produce a greater number of frozen than novel figures, and that the absolute level of…

This study proposed to identify teachers' questions and concerns in helping children write creatively in the intermediate grades of six elementary schools in Plainedge, N.Y.; to assess the extent of teacher interest in these questions and concerns for treatment in a teachers' guide; to write such a guide and test its adequacy for meeting teachers'…

This curriculum guide for the teaching of composition at the sixth grade level includes lessons in six categories: Observing, Recallin Experiences, Making Words Work, Causes and Effects, Using Imagination, and Considering Audience. The lessons include a statement of purpose, a description of primary and/or secondary skills that are objectives of…

This book describes drama as a medium for effective English teaching. The author discusses his experiences while attempting to carry on a teaching approach, centered in dramatic activity, which had been developing in the Perse School, in Cambridge, England, for nearly fifty years. Having learned English at the same school and in the same…

The primary purpose of this annual directory is to help groups and individuals locate contemporary, American fiction writers. Information about more than 800 fiction writers and poets who also write fiction (organized geographically by state) includes current addresses, teaching preferences, and most recent publications. For authors who are…

Twenty-six lesson plans are presented for creative language activities leading to writing and art work. Each lesson includes a statement of teaching goals, resulting pupil experiences, materials needed, suggested stories, procedures, and extended follow-up activities. (AA)

This is one of a series of units for environmental education developed by the Highline Public Schools. This unit is designed to assist sixth-grade students to increase their awareness and appreciation of their environment, and to develop their thinking and feelings concerning it by using creative writing. It is recommended that the seven lessons…

This book describes a program designed to help children think about the writing process in order to express their ideas better in writing: to stimulate children's thought and to introduce them to forms of literature they might not ordinarily read, the teacher should read aloud to both primary and secondary level students at least 20 minutes every…

Procedures are described which yielded very high inter-judge reliability in grading creative writing.

Research studies in the areas of children's writing and reading interests are reported.

Teachers should encourage children to write in order to help them understand their feelings of anger, hurt, guilt, and so on.

Lists and discusses factors that contribute to creativity theory, such as analogy, archetypes, symbols, conditions that foster creativity, and syntactic fluency. (RL)

Contains a teacher's description of how a radio script was developed by students and the completed script itself. (RL)

Describes the circumstances which provoked creative expression in writing by a seven-year-old in an English primary school, and discusses the school's flexible, humanistic environment. (BR)

Excerpts of writings, photographs of paintings and accounts of the philosophies expounded by eight-to nine-year-old children during the course of a school year in an English primary school are presented. (CP)