A poetry writing contest used to introduce safety facts to sixth grade students is described, and some of the verses are reproduced. (DB)

An encouraging experience with jail inmates who improved their educational status is presented. (CK)

An interview with a well-known writer reveals how he writes and how he feels about the way writing is being taught. (FL)

Recounts how a graduate student in education struggled to write her first poem before going out to teach poetry to students. (JL)

A Newbery Award-winning author presents episodes from her past that have served as the background to her collection of poems for children. (AEA)

A Caldecott Award-winning author presents a brief description of his early interest in art. (AEA)

Surveys collections of poetry by children, identifying aspects of the poetry that communicate children's social and political awareness of the contemporary world. Numerous sample poems are included. (Author/CM)

Guidelines are given for teachers or parents to develop creative writing skills in gifted children. It is suggested that children learn to be observant, to record their perceptions, and that they be exposed to literary models. (CL)

Explains what writers mean when they talk about (1) writing as exploration, (2) being "honest" when writing, (3) "showing" instead of "telling," (4) the writer's "voice," and (5) the intensely personal experience that writing affords. (RL)

Presents a writing project in which children illustrate a story within a drawn circle, ending up where the story started, as a model for story writing. (HTH)

Health concepts are taught through the creation of a fictional story. (LH)

Discusses stories in general, stories in the novel, and "Robinson Crusoe," focusing on what happens in and to narrative--the transformation in the nature of story--that brings the novel into existence. (DD)

Discusses the life, works, and philosophy of a major "new journalist" writer. (FL)

A dialogue with a soul in Purgatory which points out that people write to make things real. (DD)