Describes a brief creative writing course in which students can teach themselves how to write and includes sample instructional materials and exercises. (RB)

Based on a speech given at a Children's Book Council meeting (Spring, 1968).

This collection of 26 student writing samples from the nine schools of the Iditarod Area School District, McGrath, Alaska, includes poetry and prose reflecting nature, community life, recreation, and drug problems. Native Alaskan and Caucasian students of elementary and secondary levels are represented. (DF)

AN ANTHOLOGY OF CREATIVE WRITING IS PRESENTED. THE THEMES ENCOMPASS A RANGE AND VARIETY OF SUBJECTS. ELEVEN SECTIONS INCLUDE THE IDEAS OF THE STUDENTS ON THE FOLLOWING--THEMSELVES AND THEIR PLACE IN THE WORLD, THEIR FAMILY, THEIR SCHOOL, THE CITY OF CHICAGO, PATRIOTISM AND THE UNITED STATES, OUTER SPACE, HUMOR AND LAUGHTER, BEAUTY IN BOTH THE…

Designed for use with gifted students in grades 6 through 8, the unit deals with suggestions for developing creativity through writing poetry. It is explained that the focus is on helping students recognize their own creativity before teaching poetry skills. Information on objectives, materials, and presentation methods is presented for the…

Addressed to junior and senior high school students, this beginning guide for writing speeches, research papers, and book reports outlines the processes of selecting a subject, organizing material and ideas, and beginning and ending a writing assignment. Offered as a supplement to classroom writing instruction, the guide assumes parental…

This book contains an edited transcription of the proceedings of the Conference on Teaching Creative Writing held at the Library of Congress in January 1973. Directors of the four pioneer writing programs in the United States presented papers and led the panel discussions. Panel members were distinguished graduates of or participants in these…

The papers in this book were presented at a Symposium in Rhetoric at the Texas Woman's University, in Denton, Texas, on April 26, 1974. "Searching for a Romantic Rhetoric" by Gary Tate argues that authors of textbooks have failed the contemporary student of writing by ignoring the spaciousness of rhetoric. Rhetoric has also served writing students…

The role of elementary school teachers in encouraging children in poetic composition is the focus of this handbook, one of a series that offer suggestions for teaching. With the assumption that given proper guidance, all children are capable of poetic composition, this teachers' guide introduces poetic composition in three interdependent stages:…

This article discusses the concept of modernity found in Black literature, and considers how Black literature can be utilized in literature, particularly American literature, courses. (DB)

The purpose of the study was to provide a rating scale for the evaluation of children's fiction writing; to determine whether teachers could use the scale with valid and reliable results; and to determine whether inter-rater agreement among teachers could be increased by training in the use of the scale. The study also investigated the question as…

In a "multimedia experiment," director Frank Perry and author Eleanor Perry, adapted three of Truman Capote's short stories for television. The television plays, "A Christmas Memory,""Miriam," and "Among the Paths to Eden," were later reedited and presented in movie theaters under the title "Trilogy." This volume includes the short stories, the…

Form, content, and style are stressed in this quinmester program in the creative writing of short stories. The program, which is offered by the Dade County Public Schools, is designed for students who wish to improve their writing skills in order to compose a structured short story. Among the learning activities suggested by the program are…

The free-writing program presented in this book and illustrated with student writing samples emphasizes student writing which is alive and valuable and which is to be read by real persons, who respond. New material in this second edition focuses especially on these points, in three chapters: writing in and for a group of helping commenters…