creative writing (elementary education)

Offers ideas for teachers on the teaching of creative writing.

Explores the contradictions between what is expected of teachers and the education and support they have received, and provides teachers with advice on how to teach writing and generate their students' interest in writing.

Presents tips for writing interesting stories, passionate essays, and exciting reports, focusing on the elements of sentence structure, paragraph organization, grammar, usage, punctuation, and footnotes.

Introduces children to the creative writing, and discusses writing ideas, basics of story structure, revisions, and more.

Presents an introduction to writing poetry, in simple text with illustrations, focusing on nonsense poems and methods of creating humorous poetry, including using alliteration, playing with language, writing a performance poem, and inventing words.

Presents a practical guide for intermediate and middle level teachers that provides the tools needed to integrate writer's notebook into their writing programs, and contains lessons and samples of student writing.

Offers advice to teachers on how to conduct writing workshops, providing a rationale for writing workshops, looking at what they have in common across grade levels, and discussing the tone of workshop teaching, getting started with independent writing time, curriculum, focus lessons, assessment and evaluation, and other topics.

Presents twenty lessons to help students create a writer's notebook and use the notebook to improve their writing skills and apply them to the classroom.