creative writing (elementary education)

Provides tips and ideas for integrating writing into all aspects of a classroom, with assignments, examples of student writing, and strategies for using writer's notebooks to record observations and serve as a tool across the curriculum.

Provides teachers with suggestions and activities for workshops designed to improve writing skills for students in grades two through five; each workshop includes a brief introduction, four writing activities, one enrichment activity, and an idea for a transitional item.

Guide for creative writers using innovative exercises, sample pieces written by high school students, and inspiring quotes.

Describes techniques that teachers can use to increase their students' appreciation for writing and offers a detailed, week-by-week description of fourteen sessions designed to improve students' writing and reading skills.

Explores the writing experiences of boys in the classroom and offers teachers practical suggestions to help them get their male students more interested in and excited about the writing process.

Provides guidance and ideas for literacy teachers in helping young children write their own fiction and integrating classroom fiction writing and the teaching of reading.

Beliefs, techniques, and tools to help adults teach kids to write stories and poems that reflect their feelings.

A guide for writing that provides fourteen explained lessons and a detailed description of the process used by author Lester Laminack to compose his picture book, "Saturdays and Teacakes, " and explains how to read from a writer's perspective. Includes a DVD.