Using Mental Imagery to Enhance Gifted Elementary Students' Creative Writing.

Jampole, Ellen S.; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ431049

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1991

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Using Mental Imagery to Enhance Gifted Elementary Students' Creative Writing.

Jampole, Ellen S.; And Others

Reading Psychology, v12 n3 p183-97 1991

Examines the effects of mental imagery instruction on 37 gifted fourth and fifth grade students' creative writing and development of imagery vividness. Finds that treatment subjects significantly outperformed control subjects on originality and use of sensory descriptions but not on writing length. (MG)

Descriptors: Creative Writing, Gifted, Grade 4, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Reading Research, Writing Ability, Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes, Writing Research

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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