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Inman, Kathy Huse; Kreitzer, Jack – 1982
The classroom activities suggested in this resource booklet, proven successful by South Dakota poet Jack Kreitzer, are designed to spark or increase students' creativity by bringing the exciting language of poetry alive in the elementary and secondary classroom. Introductory comments present thoughts on what poetry is and how it should be taught,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Writing
Burns, Mary T. – Creative Child and Adult Quarterly, 1986
Educators need to develop teaching strategies that allow children to explore creative musical processes that will nurture musical skills, self-awareness, and imagination. A sequence of five lessons encompassing language arts and music demonstrates how students can develop creativity by writing haiku and then composing music to accompany the poems.…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creativity, Haiku, Lesson Plans
Rebbeck, Barbara J. – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1989
This article describes one poet/teacher's program to explore and cultivate student creativity, intuition, and imagination through a series of visual, verbal, and psychological exercises. Visualization, free-writing, association, variations on other poets' work, and memory mapping are among the creativity exercises employed prior to actual writing…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creative Writing, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textSmutny, Joan Franklin – 2001
This digest paper presents strategies and activities that can be used to encourage gifted students to develop their individual talents in the language arts. Suggestions for exploring poetic language especially free verse, include ideas for creating group poems and catalysts for creating individual poems. Suggestions for exploring the elements of…
Descriptors: Biographies, Classroom Techniques, Creative Activities, Creative Development
Krause, Claire S. – 1984
The CREST (Creative Resources Enriching Student Talents) Project, an enrichment approach for elementary gifted, talented, and creative students, is described. The project is explained to incorporate an interdisciplinary approach to instruction in art and science using resources within the community. Chapter 1 outlines the project philosophy,…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Creative Development, Creative Writing, Creativity
Peer reviewedBates, Marilyn – Art Education, 1993
Argues that student creative writing is stimulated by painting and other visual art. Describes a seven-step process in which students view painting and other visual arts and then write poetry. Includes suggested artworks and excerpts of poetry written by students. (CFR)
Descriptors: Art Education, Audiovisual Aids, Class Activities, Creative Development
Koch, Norman E. – 1986
Stressing language development as the prime component of all learning, this resource book presents suggestions to teachers to aid them in developing children's descriptive language. Basic to the described activities is the concept that vocabulary development is essentially concept development, requires a variety of experiences, and results from…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Choral Speaking, Classroom Techniques, Creative Development
