Argues that the perennial problem of boring student writing is solved when assignments provide writers with target readers, enabling students to find their appropriate voice. Discusses a sample assignment in which students explain how to do something they do well to readers who don't know how to do it. (JG)

Provides activities for teaching the skill of comparison using various parts of newspapers. (SRT)

Recommends a series of questions, activities, and guidelines to make free writing more productive and generative. (MS)

Presents a simple classroom exercise that transforms a remote future need for grammatical competence into a more practical, immediate, and useful skill. (HTH)

Involving children with meaningful occasions such as journal writing may be one way to communicae the importance of writing, not only as a fundamental communication skill but also as a means for personal learning and development. Journal writing focuses on the process rather than the product. (CL)

Provides a rationale for high school writing assignments focusing on a wide range of personal, social, and moral issues related to responsible living. Offers a sequence of such assignments reflecting increasing complex writing and thinking skills for grades 7 to 12. (DMM)

An imaginary character helps your children cast aside inhibitions and write more freely. (Editor)

Discusses the use of exercises that help students learn to write poetry. (HOD)

Explores activities described in ERIC documents that are designed to create in the student an awareness of audience beyond the classroom setting. (HTH)

Drawing on his own experiences as a student and as an English teacher, the author considers the learning value of the marks and comments teachers make on students' compositions. (SJL)

Offers a glimpse of a Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition of 80 photographs and selected writings by first through eighth grade children growing up in Letcher County, Kentucky. Children were guided by an artist-in-residence sponsored by the Kentucky Arts Commission and Appalshop, a multimedia cooperative. (Author/RH)

Provides step-by-step directions for various creative writing strategies for teachers to use with their students. Illustrates each strategy: the sneak attack; the poetry cafe; videotaping a poem; and choral reading and coloring meaning. (PA)