The protest poetry of Claude McKay, a leading writer of the Harlem Renaissance, is couched in the Western sonnet form. How the poetic form supports or conflicts with the messages of African-American pride and contempt for racism is examined. (SLD)

The adoption of a process writing approach in elementary French immersion (FI) is discussed, including favorable arguments from the research and concerns related to creative writing in second-language contexts. Ways to address the special needs of FI students are outlined. (45 references) (Author/LB)

Presents two children's poems about candy, by Dorothy Aldis. The article describes a teaching unit on the poems, the poet, and her use of end rhymes. Activities include writing rhyming words, writing rhyming poems, rhyming a recipe, and creating collages. (SM)

The use of creativity in second-language writing classes is described in which students are asked to pick five unrelated sentences from the textbook and then weave them into a one-page story. Six sample stories are provided. (LB)

Describes how one English teacher stumbled on the idea of having student peer groups write scripts. Outlines a variety of ways that script writing assignments can be made. Advocates having such scripts created by student collaborative groups. (HB)

Thinking about how published authors get their ideas for stories is one way for children to generate their own story ideas. The article discusses how elementary teachers can use storytelling, reading, examining picture books, and learning writing techniques to help their students select a topic. (SM)

Describes a poetry writing project that uses the "strangeness" of German to beginning students as an impetus for creativity, demonstrating students' unexpected linguistic resourcefulness and the use of the poems as inspiration for more innovative teaching and learning within a task-oriented and communicative curriculum. (Author/CB)

Describes an informal study which explored the reasons why students love poetry in the fourth grade and hate it by the time they are in high school or college. Blames the tenets of the New Criticism for the analytical approach which seems to turn away students. (PRA)

This article describes 16 children's books that are suggested to help students develop their creative writing skills, including the use of parody, satire, similes, hyperbole, and point of view. Each book's description is accompanied by suggestions for using the book to stimulate creative writing. (DB)

Describes a summer course for educators entitled "Teachers as Poets," in which educators considered ways of teaching poetry in the literature classroom. Addresses issues of reading poetry, writing poetry, idea finding, the language of poetry, and the environment of the classroom. (HB)

Describes the way that novelist Michael Morpurgo came up with his character Anya for the story, "Waiting for Anya." Provides first-person account of the genesis of the character by the author. (HB)

Describes how a teacher integrated an audio cassette version of a Ray Bradbury story into a computer-supported creative writing project in her seventh-grade literature class. (SR)

Describes a simple eight-step technique for teaching poetry that introduces poetry from the standpoint of writing it and by changing prose to poetry. (SR)

Discusses how Bette Green carried out research for the preparation of her novel, "The Drowning of Stephan Jones." Speaks out against hate crimes against and the oppression of gay and lesbian youth. (HB)

Analyzes spontaneous written expression (sampled from 11 workshops) according to a structured model of Creative Poetry Therapy. Finds similarity in the poetic indicators and in the expression of psychological needs, despite profound differences in the composition of the groups (children, youth, adults). Argues that the healing process of poetry…