Relates poetry to journalism, as a kind, or several kinds, of reporting with several of the author's own poems illustrating the thesis. Suggestions for stimulating student poetry writing are given. (TO)

The author discusses writing Spanish in the elementary schools of Puerto Rico. They have much the same problems that we do in the U.S. (MR)

Literature should not be used only as a teaching aid or a source of pleasure but as a means of developing and expanding the imagination. (JH)

Teacher prescription of form and content stifle students' poetic creativity. (JH)

Describes a teaching technique for first grades that made use of poetry to teach not only poetry but reading, dramatization, writing and speech improvement. (RB)

The feeling for language which is aroused in children's study of poetry carries over to their writing of prose. (RB)

Simplification of Haiku to enable fifth graders to write their own verse. (AF)

Defines and illustrates free, haiku, cinquain, diamante, septolet, and quintain verse patterns and urges their use in motivating students to compose poems. (SW)