creative writing (elementary education)

A little girl named Stella must choose a topic for a narrative writing project.

Provides three hundred strategies for improving the writing skills of students and includes suggestions for stocking a writing center planning units, celebrating writing, and keeping records.

Presents classroom-tested ideas to develop student creativity and imagination.

Provides an overview of twenty-seven author's craft elements, such as alliteration, descriptive language, simile, and wordplay, each with lists of exemplary texts; includes study lessons; and contains an annotated bibliography of mentor texts.