creative writing

An ordinary boy is having an ordinary day, until a new teacher, Mr. Gee, challenges all the children to use their imaginations.

Provides activities to uncover individual traits and abilities, information about careers in writing, description of career planning resources, explanations for personal roadmaps, and profiles of individuals with writing careers.

Presents a curriculum for teaching primary writing, offering advice on how to identify and address specific writing issues with individual students.

Suggests helpful procedures and approaches for the beginning writer in areas of interest such as the journal, letter writing, creative writing, school reports, topics and experiments, editing, and publishing.

This follow-up to "What's Your Story?" presents a selection of short fiction written by students in grades four through twelve followed by Bauer's comments on each.

A guide to writing prose, both fiction and nonfiction, and poetry.

Presents techniques and strategies for a writer's "toolbox," designed to help produce energetic, interesting writing; covers characters, voice, audience, conflict, setting, leads, endings, and reading like a writer.

Identifies the characteristics of a play and gives guidelines, suggestions, and examples for choosing a story, developing ideas, making a first draft, adapting to practical considerations, and preparing the finished script.

Discusses the various kinds of things to keep in a writer's notebook--seed ideas, mind pictures, lists, memories, samples of other writers' work--and why.

Examines the theoretical underpinnings of how students learn to write from reading other writers; describes various kinds of inquiry designed to help teachers and students learn how to learn from writers; and includes thoughts from the author on writing and teaching, as well as a selection of resource materials.