creative writing

Offers rationales and strategies to teachers on how to use visual art in the writing workshop, and includes illustrations and worksheets, as well as examples of student writing.

Introduces the different kinds of poetry and the mechanics of writing poetry, providing an opportunity for the reader to experience the joy of making a poem.

A guide to the writing process, covering story, language, detail, character, writing an outline, and more.

Instructions for making paper masks of fairy tale characters and making a fairy tale book through the process of writing and illustrating a story and binding it into a French-fold book.

Discusses how to write fiction, exploring such aspects as character, plot, point of view, dialogue, endings, and revising.

Contains a collection of poems for children who are intereseted in writing, and includes verse that explores the nature of the creative process.

When a contest at the local library offers a prize for the best story, a girl tries to write one using her family's suggestions, but her story does not seem right until she listens to her heart.

Illustrator Janet Stevens introduces the processes involved in making a book, from manuscript to finished book.

Provides children with practical advice on how to write poems.