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Direct linkBowkett, Steve – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Using Comic Art to Improve Speaking, Reading and Writing" uses children's interest in pictures, comics and graphic novels as a way of developing their creative writing abilities, reading skills and oracy. The book's underpinning strategy is the use of comic art images as a visual analogue to help children generate, organise and refine their ideas…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Creative Writing, Reading Skills, Speech Skills
Download full textGlover, Mary Kenner – 1999
Written for elementary school teachers who want to help their students delve into poetry, this book grows out of a comparison between gardening and writing poetry. Students at the alternative school founded by the book's author work and play on a plot of land near the school; inside, they work and play with words and imagery. Many examples of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Gardening
Bender, Sheila, Ed. – 1997
This anthology presents excerpts from the journals of 40 of today's most noted writers, along with their comments on the role of journal-keeping in creating their art. Besides being generally instructional to other writers and a lesson in how to create a personal journal, the anthology is a look at writers in the midst of creating. It includes…
Descriptors: Authors, Contemporary Literature, Creative Development, Creative Writing
Bishop, Wendy – 1990
After a brief review of the history of college writing instruction, this book examines the undergraduate creative writing workshop. The book attempts to reweave the currently separate strands of college-level creative writing instruction and composition instruction in the belief that developments in these perhaps artificially separated areas can…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, English Curriculum, Higher Education
Moss, Barbara, Ed.; Lapp, Diane, Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2009
Even the youngest readers and writers in today's classrooms can benefit enormously from engagement with a wide range of traditional and nontraditional texts. This teacher-friendly handbook is packed with creative strategies for introducing K-3 students to fiction, poetry, and plays; informational texts; graphic novels; digital storytelling;…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, High Stakes Tests, Visual Aids, Biographies
Calkins, Lucy McCormick; Harwayne, Shelley – 1991
Intended for both experienced and novice K-12 teachers, this book invites teachers to bring new life into the reading-writing workshop and calls for teachers to push back the frontiers of their thinking about teaching writing and reading. The book includes chapters on establishing courses of study in which children read and write memoir, picture…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Instruction
Boone, Barbara Z. – 1996
This book offers "teacher-friendly" lessons to plan flexible, interesting writer's workshop programs for students. The book gives short, self-contained lessons to boost writing skills and raise interest levels, whether they are used as a regular part of curriculum or plugged in as time allows. The book's 73 mini-lessons give the help…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Instructional Improvement
Miller, Susan; Knowles, Kyle – 1997
This practical book integrates coverage of the writing process and various types of academic and professional documents with explanations and examples of using computers to enhance the process and produce effective documents. The book's four parts move from the individual writer who is using a computer to create a document to exchanges of data and…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Computer Networks, Computers, Creative Writing
Matkin, Ralph E.; Riggar, T. F. – 1991
This book describes a variety of publication experiences and reflections and offers guidelines on academic writing for college and university faculty to increase productivity and achievement in the "publish or perish" academic world. Chapter 1 defines academic writing and compares its characteristics with teaching. Chapter 2 discusses…
Descriptors: Authors, College Faculty, Creative Writing, Faculty Promotion
