Exercises are described to help junior high students understand the scope of non-fiction creative expository writing. The communication of attitude and context through language is demonstrated by an exercise based on "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." (CL)

Seventh-, eighth-, and ninth-grade special needs students in a remedial reading class were asked to write as many words as possible in six minutes. Students compete with themselves with no penalties for spelling or grammar errors. The activity is designed to make writing a natural and pleasurable activity. (CL)

Urges basic writing instructors to teach prewriting and rewriting as seriously as they teach writing. Decribes the implementation of this approach which forces students to proceed through all three stages of writing in a structured classroom setting for each composition assignment. Provides an example showing a students' writing improvement. (AYC)

Discusses the advantages of using talking about writing as a method for improving writing skills.

Students can be motivated to write by games such as rewriting well-known passages or inventing phrases which express a thesis presented to them. (DD)

Lists several classroom writing activities, including writing in sand, using letters cut from magazines and newspapers, and baking letter cookies. (HTH)

A high school English teacher with repressed urges to write reports on his self-discovery as a result of writing in class with his students. (RL)

Discusses the researched article as an alternative to the research paper and provides guidelines for students to follow in writing a query letter which sells the idea for the article. (RB)

A first grade teacher describes a writing program developed with students that begins with lists and half sentences, through learning to edit, and finally word processing on the computer. The tell-it-to-the-teacher box, daily logs, personal dictionaries, and special person's books are explained. (MT)

Offers suggestions for five computer-oriented classroom activities. They include uniting a writing class by having them collectively write a book using a word processor, examining FOR/NEXT loops, using a compound interest computer program, and developing a list of facts about computers. Includes four short programs which erase monitor screens. (JN)

Shows that the compulsion for neatness in students' in-class writing assignments is something that teachers should resist. (RL)

Describes the class activities for the first day of a freshman composition class aimed at making students more aware of linguistic and dialectal diffferences. (R B)

Describes a teaching technique which involves the writing teacher's using the blackboard in composing a short essay in front of the class. (DD)

The article describes two one-hour sessions in image making, which serves as the foundation of the creative language arts program used by the author in teaching poetry and writing to children (grades K through 5). (SBH)