Describes a writing exercise in which students are asked to write questions to be submitted to a hypothetical computer. Suggestions for subsequent activities are provided. (TO)

Offers writing assignments and exercises for students in grades one through eight. (HOD)

Describes a lesson designed to help children explore their fears and to discuss and write about them. (TO)

Reports on the positive effects of free writing that is followed by rewriting. (RL)

Provides an absorbing analysis of the composing process as the author reflects on the act of writing in which he is himself engaged. (HOD)

Recommends drama as a technique to help children make a bridge between thinking and writing. (JL)

Points out the value of responding to students' first drafts of papers, outlines a three-step approach for doing so, and gives five examples of such an approach. (JL)

Describes a summer writing course by presenting a diary embellished with writing exercises, a course guide, a list of writing activities that can be taken as starters, and assessments. Discusses how each participant is asked to create a text about a city which has a considerable visual presence, and to explore stereotypical and mythical versions…

Using supernatural events as motivation, suggests activities for discussion, story telling, and writing. (TO)

Reports findings of an investigation in New South Wales (Australia) of the different demands made on pupils by the kinds of writing tasks they were required to attempt from primary to secondary school. (HOD)