In this lesson, students work with primary documents and latter-day photographs to recapture the experience of traveling on the Oregon Trail. The learning objectives of the lesson are: (1) to learn about the pioneer experience on the Oregon Trail; (2) to evaluate a historical re-enactment in light of documentary evidence; and (3) to synthesize…

The purpose of this study was to see if cross-age tutoring by high schoolers would have an effect on the students' understanding and ability to write a short story. High schoolers, in an elective creative writing course, were paired up with sixth graders from a local feeder elementary. The high schoolers spent time studying specific short story…

Poetry can be a basis for developing reading skills, listening skills, facility in oral English, if it is taught creatively, appealing directly to the inner child. (Author/RB)

Relates the experiences of students at Joel E. Ferris High School (Spokane, Washington) who tutored culturally deprived elementary school students. (SW)

The greatest advantage of teaching English as a humanities subject is in the way it encourages children's natural abilities to express themselves creatively in words and to empathize with others. The history of the creative movement in Great Britain is traced through various literature. (PP)

Suggests approaches to assignments, students, materials, and interpretations that can help creative writing teachers incorporate such writing into real, everyday life. (JL)

Examines censorship in field of children's and adolescent literature and provides comments from well-known writers in field--Robin Brancato, Judy Blume, Sandra Scoppettone, David Rees, Betty Miles--on ways in which censorship has affected their literary careers, whether through attempts by editors or "cutbacks" in libraries. (EJS)

Illustrates the use of the creative writing activity "choose your own ending," in which junior high school students structure a story by writing two responses to major points in a plot. (RL)

Presents a unit that uses folk and fairy tales to provide a literary background for creative writing in a fourth-grade classroom. (FL)

Describes activities done to help second graders learn about spring using their imaginations, curiosity, and body energies. Includes activities in science, reading, dramatics, and movement. (MA)

Describes how one school developed six literature-based explorations involving an author of children's books that was intended to develop children's imaginations. (HOD)

Defines the concepts underlying the semiotics of written texts and emphasizes the distinction between literary production (discourse) and technical writing (message), the former stressing the poetic and expressive functions, the latter the referential function. Describes the language of "messages" as based on unambiguous terms that reflect the…