Presents a variety of tested ideas for getting student writers started. (SJL)

Describes how Wantagh Elementary School's reading lab became the School Publishing Company's Write-In Center where students can write stories and have them bound into books. Discusses the motivational benefits of a school publishing program. (SJL)

This writing unit with a Halloween theme includes exercises and worksheets to develop prewriting, writing, and rewriting skills. (SJL)

A journal account of working in the New York poets-in-the-schools program, with some philosophical comments about the teaching of poetry and poetry writing. (RL)

Offers 10 classroom-tested assignments that result in successful writing experiences and assist students in developing creative and critical thinking skills. (RL)

Contends that the dissertation is becoming a genre; illustrates through three recent examples that dissertations that are accepted by graduate schools although they are clearly fictions can serve a valuable purpose. (DD)

The article examines a language arts course for gifted six- and seven-year-old children. After exploring some characteristics of giftedness, the author discusses the course, which incorporates reading, literary awareness, and creative writing. (PHR)

Describes 50 activity ideas and 30 topics for writing that bring career education, creative writing and composition together. (DD)

A poet relates her personal writing problems, which she resolved by completing some of the assignments she had used in her classes. (RL)

Suggests that literary study should employ student creative writing as a transition into expository critical writings and discussion of literary works. (DD)

Creative writing should be a spontaneous experience in which primary-age children are free to express their ideas in their own unique ways, unhampered by having to conform to "correct" standards. (NQ)

Reviews the major principles and techniques from the literature on rhetorical invention that bear on honest inquiry in the framework of Graham Wallace's four stages of the creative process. (DD)

Children should be encouraged to write on subjects that interest them; their own experiences and observations are their best sources of material. (JD)

Gives background and suggestions for producing a school literary review. (HOD)

Suggests the use of children's literature as a model for junior high students' writing. (DD)