Presents strategies to increase the flow of writing so that students become more attuned to the usefulness of words in capturing thoughts, feelings, and impressions. (RL)

Advocates the use of two frameworks, "gathering" and "sharing," for junior high school homework assignments that connect the classroom to the outside world and make students responsible for some of their own learning. (NKA)

Describes an approach to teaching narrative poetry writing to tenth-grade students. (RL)

Describes a game which can be used to acquaint students with the basic elements of narrative fiction. (DD)

Describes a creative writing assignment in which individuals write episodes about different characters and small groups collaborate on unifying the collected "chapters" into sagas. (RL)

Describes a way of getting students to write poetry through writing collaborative poems. Relates the step-by-step procedure used by a class in writing a collaborative poem, and presents their poem. (RL)

Recounts a teacher's successful search for a game that would reinforce her students' grasp of English grammar. (NKA)

Describes a method of peer group teaching that stresses group responsibility and awareness of goals. (JL)