Discusses creative writing in Hong Kong secondary school classrooms, a place where the concept of "creative" is relatively alien. Provides examples of poetry written by Hong Kong students, and discusses strategies for promoting creative writing. (Author/VWL)

Discusses Pat Mora's career as a children's book author and aspects of her work: the Latino experience, bilingualism, family life, desert landscape, and folk tales. Provides classroom activities in art, creative writing, social studies, geography, drama. Provides a selected bibliography of Mora's work. (PEN)

Undergraduate creative writing students (n=41) and 40 student journalists (n=40) wrote sentences in response to photographs. Responses were then scored according to Burner's theory of Narrative and Paradigmatic Thought. Creative writers scored significantly higher than journalists on narrative thought. Male journalists outscored male creative…

Responding to a definition of creativity, 449 Chinese language teachers identified imagination foremost, followed by inspiration and original ideas as a component of effective writing. Teachers identified developing student confidence and providing an open atmosphere as essential means of fostering creativity. The majority of teachers, however,…

Discusses the community outreach issues involved in the merging of a two-year branch campus of a university and a two-year technical college in Arkansas. States that, by creating two literary magazines, the institution involved members of the community with varied talents and interests. Adds that such projects may serve as models to college…

Shares reading activities--using cereal boxes as reading material--which will energize knowledge and use of vocabulary, fortify comprehension skills, enrich understanding of critical reading, promote use of organizational skills, and encourage improved reporting and writing. (MG)

The geographical, cultural, and linguistic diversity of the Philippines has strongly influenced the construction of self in Filipino literature. Filipino writers must formulate the fictional self in the midst of a tussle between the language of reality and the language of writing that is exacerbated by the country's colonial heritage. (JL)

This article describes an inter-class project that paired second and fifth grade students to produce a book of their poetry developed through a program of instruction in the forms and literary aspects of poetry. Students collaborated broadly across grade levels on composition of poems and cover art for the publication. (PB)

Offers 17 exercises combining writing and painting, each with its own theme and goal, and all designed to show that close observation is fundamental to the effectiveness of both visual and verbal expression. (SR)

Presents examples of two kinds of stories with a repeating pattern: those that repeat nonsense phrases, and stories that end right back where they began. Provides two copyable work sheets designed to help students create their own pattern stories. (RT)

Offers guidelines for helping children appreciate and create poetry. Discusses use of outdoor field trips in creating outdoor poetry. Suggests that outdoor poetry experiences expand students' awareness of environment, while improving their reading and writing skills. Offers examples of students' poetry. (TES)

Describes "Plausible Stories," an activity which uses creative writing and story predictions to help teachers exploit the interactive nature of the processes of reading and writing. (MS)

Describes a second-grade class project in which students wrote a fictional biography in response to several books read aloud to them. Enumerates the 9 steps in the process, and presents selections (chapters 1 and 10) from the book "The Man in the Walnut Shell." (SR)

Uses the interpretative location of the author's reading of Michael Ondaatje's poem "Light" and the author's writing of his own poem "Three Women Pictured" as a way of organizing a discussion of three ideas that illuminate the complexity of shared reading and response in schools. (TB)

Describes how one English teacher used advertising to enhance literature instruction in the classroom. Focuses on the actual methods used in an eighth-grade English class, including analysis of commercials and research on ad agencies. (HB)