Help kids create poems, stories and plays orally and they'll be readier to write. (Editor)

Five arguments supporting creative writing programs in the language arts curriculum are presented.

Advertisements can be effective stimuli for creative writing.

Four play scripts written by elementary school students. (RL)

Draws on the work of students in several classes to argue that the best stimulus for creative writing involves a fusion of comprehension, note-taking, and discussion work to provide a ready-made thematic structure for students' work. (AA)

Considers some effective teaching techniques for helping students find and illuminate their own material in creative writing workshops. Provides examples of student poems to help orient other students toward writing about observations, emotions, and experiences. (RL)

Discusses writing assignments that allowed students who were uneasy with writing to relax and create, while also allowing more confident students enough creative latitude to take some imaginative risks. Presents samples of student writings that resulted from the assignments. (RL)

Using the nine traits of creativity suggested by Guilford and illustrated in tests of creative thinking by Torrance, high school teachers of varied subjects developed teaching strategies. Both students and teachers learned more about creativity by confronting the unknow future, predicting from limited data, and writing stories using fantasy.…

Suggests several teaching techniques which encourage creative independent writing by providing needed structure. (DD)

Eight ideas to motivate children to write. (CM)

A teacher describes a technique for helping students discover exactly what they want to write about and how to develop and expand an original idea. (JD)

The writing style of many college students is deplorably florid; in the hope of sounding "educated" they use long words where short ones will do just as well. (JD)

Criticizes the Poets in the Schools program and similar undertakings for praising students' writing excessively and thus failing to acquaint students with the discipline required to produce outstanding poetry. (DD)

Describes a successful exercise which involved junior high school students in writing a musical comedy. (DD)