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Statman, Mark – Teachers & Writers, 2000
Describes how the author, when teaching dream poems and poem writing to older kids, uses Margaret Atwood's "Dreams of the Animals" to extend the discussion about dreaming and have the children think about dreams that have little to do with their own. Includes examples of students' poems about animal dreams. (SR)
Descriptors: Animals, Creative Writing, Dreams, Elementary Education
Statman, Mark – Teachers & Writers, 2000
Argues that the differences between the worlds kids live in and the worlds they are taught to desire (through television, movies, music, and magazines) can cause a desperate confusion that children long to have resolved. Describes how the author, a teacher of writing, has students think and write about reality. (SR)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Poetry
Statman, Mark – Teachers & Writers, 2000
Argues that silence has a remarkable presence, and that hearing silence is about stopping and not doing, letting the sounds of the world come to you. Describes ways the author has worked with elementary school students, asking them to think about and write about silence. Includes poems about silence. (SR)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Listening
