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Buttery, Thomas J.; Reitzammer, Ann F. – Reading Improvement, 1987
Analyzes the creative writing of 94 second-grade children in a suburban elementary school, comparing boys' and girls' creative writings when the composition was elicited from realistic fiction, fantasy, and fantasy in conjunction with stuffed animals and wind-up toys. Also examines the combined creativity of boys' and girls' compositions and the…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Females, Grade 2
Dyson, Anne Haas – 1989
A case study traces the evolution of "once-upon-a-time" in a child's classroom story writing, drawing upon data collected in a three-year study of writing development in an urban magnet school. The subject, Mitzi, is observed from kindergarten through second grade. The study assumes that stories are cultural discourse forms that serve…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Creative Development, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing