Describes the Young Writers' Workshops -- community-based Saturday writing seminars held for the elementary students of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. (SJL)

A personal account of teaching creative writing to elementary school students, with information on what the teacher learned about teaching, what classroom techniques she used, and how the students reacted to creative writing and writing for publication. (RL)

Notes that interaction between writers and interpreters can improve a sometimes tenuous relationship. Provides classroom assignments, performance activities, and workshops to promote interaction and understanding. (PD)

Argues that the right combination of creativity and reporting is what makes the difference between feature stories that are read and feature stories that are ignored. (RL)

Discusses various ways, with illustrative detail, of teaching poetry in the classroom. (HOD)

Stressing the vast resources available to students living in the country, this article describes a teaching technique for creative writing that includes a structured process in which occurrences are creatively transformed into a finished literary product. (SB)

Describes how students write, edit, illustrate, cover, and bind their own books in a project that involves parent volunteers and instructional aides. Benefits of the project are that students enrich their vocabulary, gain acquaintance with new terminology, and increase their appreciation of literature in all forms. (AEA)

Describes a way of getting students to write poetry through writing collaborative poems. Relates the step-by-step procedure used by a class in writing a collaborative poem, and presents their poem. (RL)

A multiple choice exercise, in which students choose personality characteristics, brief lines of dialogue, and action is presented as a method for teaching students unfamiliar with literary devices or critical reading. (HTH)

Evidence demonstrating the success of college programs offered in prisons is presented with emphasis on the high level of creativity and skill in literary areas. (JMF)

Describes a method for giving a final examination in a British Literature class by having students write a paper using an original approach based on the works studied during the semester. Provides four possible approaches and includes an example written by a student. (TJ)

Despite recent criticism, the personal growth model of English studies that became synonymous with the Dartmouth Conference of 1966 is still considered preeminently viable by many educators. That is, more important than any other single function, language serves the most profound and intimate of human purposes--personal development. (Author)

Shows that certain central characteristics of black literature are not at all unique to the literature of the invisible black nation, but are inherent in the post-colonial condition. (Author/AM)

Explores portrayals of librarians in fictional works, notably those involving mystery or detection. Includes a summary of librarian roles derived from descriptions of about 120 contemporary or recent works obtained from reviewing sources and from direct examination. (AEF)

This article describes the revision of the writing sample component used as one of five identification criteria for placement in a gifted program. A checklist of characteristics common to gifted writers was developed to be used in evaluating the students' creative writing responses to specific literature selections. A rubric for scoring writing…