Discusses ways teachers can help their students write worthwhile poems by preparing the children, providing them with suitable occasions for writing, and giving them opportunities to refine their poems. (DD)

The community writers' workshop and theater provide nonacademic settings in which students can learn. (DB)

Illustrated. (RD)

Describes one experience in providing a relevant and thought provoking evening of entertainment for the community through the development of the local documentary" technique. (Author)

Describes the Teachers and Writers Collaborative, a program in which a professional writer works closely on a long-term basis with a particular group of public school students and their teacher. Object: to encourage children to write creatively, out of their own experiences, about what is real to them. (MG)

An award-winning author-illustrator reflects on some of his attitudes and feelings about his work, and on some factors which were important in his creation of a recent picture book for children. (PP)

Stresses the unity of two themes--a sense of change and a sense of continuity--in the writing and reading of adolescent literature. Writers are encouraged to avoid the pitfalls of "in" topics and moralizing to promote the flowering of expressive realistic adolescent literature that adolescents will want to read. (RAA)

Discusses the problems of evaluating creativity, and explains a particular approach used by the author. (JL)

Explains how having students write "found poems" by using the card catalog helps introduce the card catalog to students while also serving as an introduction to poetry. (JL)