Shared creative involvement in playwriting is the focus of this book which presents seven sample plays and suggests techniques for motivating and guiding children in classroom playwriting. Included are (1) a discussion of the general benefits derived by all kinds of students from participation in playwriting, plus specific guidelines for developing original plays; (2) models of two original social studies plays and general teaching methods for average, superior, and slow classes; (3) details of procedures involved in the creation of three original plays with retarded readers, emphasizing the play as a dramatic device, as a vocabulary builder, and as motivation in developing a reading program; and (4) a discussion of methods utilized in the creation of two original plays with superior classes, using choral speaking for motivating self-expression and an historical theme for motivating further reading in history and classical literature. (JMC)