Help kids create poems, stories and plays orally and they'll be readier to write. (Editor)

A compilation is presented of recommendations of teachable literary works. (JH)

Examines the form that poetic function assumes in American Sign Language, a language that has a structural organization different from oral languages and where the possibilities for poetic organization are radically different. Examples of a complex type of composition called art-sign distinguished by three levels of structure are analyzed.…

Teachers participating in an inservice class report their own personal responses to the use of poetry in the classroom.

Considers some effective teaching techniques for helping students find and illuminate their own material in creative writing workshops. Provides examples of student poems to help orient other students toward writing about observations, emotions, and experiences. (RL)

This follow-up to two previous studies provides a list of dissertations in the area of Italian studies, mainly literature, either completed since 1971 or currently in progress. (Author/KM)

Because Robert Lowell's poem "Hawthorne" focuses on Puritan New England, both as a setting and a subject, and shows the dark side of human nature, and Hawthorne as the alienated artist with a definite place in American literature, it is a most appropriate conclusion for a teaching unit on Hawthorne.

Describes how to develop a Likert-scale instrument for determining affective response to poetry on five levels. (DD)

In a study comparing poetry written by 23 Ss and 24 controls, all students in introductory college speech courses, it was found that poetry written by the Ss who spent 15 minutes prior to writing the poetry in nonverbal activities of the encounter group type was rated higher than that of the controls on all three criteria of originality,…

Criticizes the Poets in the Schools program and similar undertakings for praising students' writing excessively and thus failing to acquaint students with the discipline required to produce outstanding poetry. (DD)

A defense of the grammatical correctness of the sentence, "Let us go then, you and I." (DD)

Illustrates how to use a sound poem to recreate the mood of a children's book. (DD)

Discusses the concrete poetry movement in Europe and illustrates "image texts"--studies in the illegibility or ambiguity of writing and the disintegration of language. (HOD)

Poems, activities and your kids' own ideas can produce a play that is truly their own. (Editor)