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| Teachers and Writers | 6 |
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| Avrich, Jane | 1 |
| Colin, Barbara Flug | 1 |
| Collom, Jack | 1 |
| Noethe, Sheryl | 1 |
| Peck, Carol F. | 1 |
| Pflaum, Jeffrey | 1 |
| Willis, Meredith Sue | 1 |
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| Journal Articles | 6 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 2 |
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Peck, Carol F. – Teachers and Writers, 1992
Discusses a form of poetry written for two voices--two side-by-side columns, each read by a different voice. Mentions precedents of this form in art, music, and poetry. Presents examples of fourth grade, high school, and university students' poems written in this form. (RS)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Literary Styles, Poetry
Noethe, Sheryl; Collom, Jack – Teachers and Writers, 1994
Describes five poetry assignments and presents examples of students' poetry written in response to the assignments. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Poetry, Student Writing Models
Colin, Barbara Flug – Teachers and Writers, 1994
Discusses the experiences of a poetry writing teacher who teaches poetry to second-grade through high school physically challenged children using art as inspiration. Includes numerous examples of students' poetry, which demonstrate the depth, variety, complexity, and originality that art can bring out. (RS)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Expression, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Avrich, Jane – Teachers and Writers, 1992
Describes a successful unit of study on poetry in a fifth grade class that ended with students each writing a sonnet as a final project. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Poetry
Pflaum, Jeffrey – Teachers and Writers, 1992
Describes a successful program of "contemplation writing," in which, through a counting technique and a music technique, children learn how to contemplate their inner experience, write about it, and discuss it. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Expression, Intermediate Grades, Secondary Education
Willis, Meredith Sue – Teachers and Writers, 1993
Discusses revision as a form of learning and as a response to all kinds of literature, whether imitating what went before, reacting against it, or making something genuinely new of it. Offers numerous writing activities based on this idea. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Revision (Written Composition), Student Writing Models
