Plenty of subject choices make creative writing personal and successful. (Editor)

States that when writers use hypertext to produce a fictional narrative, the result is interactive hyperfiction. Charts what is known about electronic nonlinear narrative: origins, literary precursors, and distinctive features. Explores its potential in the English classroom. Examines some of the difficulties associated with its use as well as the…

Describes an approach, called "dependent authorship," to reading literature and writing literature that is used in the middle grades through the college level and that is effective both in teaching writing and in promoting careful reading. Notes that students use a published literary work as a foundation for their own creative writing. (SR)

Presents a dialog among three English teachers concerning teaching performance poetry to ninth graders. (RS)

Presents 10 short excerpts (translated from Italian) from Gianni Rodari's book "The Grammar of Fantasy: An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories." Addresses creative invention, the motif of the fantastic, word choice, recasting fairy tales, and comic effects. (PA)

Presents an author's personal reaction to participating in the Kentucky Authors Project at Holmes Junior High in Covington, Kentucky. Describes difficulties in overcoming anxiety about learning how to use the Internet. Finds the experience rewarding. (PA)

Recounts the experiences of two different night hikes by junior high students in central Ohio which focused on writing a group poem and exploring the mysteries of the "unlit" world. Discusses imagery and features excerpts from "night" poetry, both that written by the students and readings from published poets. (PA)

Describes a children's literature course for preservice teachers, team-taught by creative writing and education faculty, in which students do not simply read and discuss children's literature but also write it, and what they create is then critiqued not only by their peers but by fifth to eighth graders. Calls this approach "learning children's…

Outdoor educators often ask students to write journals without training them in journal writing. A workshop in journal writing for university students in outdoor education courses covers how to write entries related to specific content areas; an understanding of Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Thinking and how it applies to journal writing; and…

Explores the different demands of scripted and unscripted story writing tasks and the extent to which the task prompted a group of Scottish pupils to adopt different writing behaviors and attitudes. Raises questions about how children are taught to write stories and suggests that a better understanding of the demands of story-writing task could…

Argues for the centrality of imaginative writing in the creative processes of coming into a language and getting between cultures. Demonstrating affinities among these processes, argues that for the intelligent conversation in which non-native students of English need to participate, the skills of story making are as essential as those of…

Explains how to use journaling in environmental education and the importance of creative writing to student learning. Discusses planning journaling activities for younger and older students and the assessment methods used. (YDS)

Suggestions are offered of ways to encourage the development of writing skills through the supportive sharing and provision of feedback. Suggestions are included for classroom writers' circles, writers' conferences, and editing/revising strategies. (DB)

Describes children's software programs that allow for a great deal of choice and control by children. Programs were selected on the basis of their design, child orientation, and ability to amuse. (RJC)

Describes a series of exercises in which students discover and work with a character, then place that character into the context of a short story. (MM)