Articles by four diverse educational innovators offer teachers some approaches to children's writing: (1) Eldonna L. Evertts advises that free self-expression should precede close attention to syntax and spelling; (2) James Britton, in four separate articles, points out: the intimate relationship between speech and children's processes of perception; the roles of planning, revision, audience, and function in writing; the concept of "the role of spectator" in the writing experience; and the need to reevaluate adult standards for children's writing; (3) Alvina Treut Burrows proposes ways in which poetic expression can be encouraged in children; and (4) Richard Lewis explores the world of a child, of feeling, and of creativity. Also included in this collection are a selected bibliography and a "Potpourri On Writing," the topics of which extend from comparisons of the British and American schools' treatment of writing, to teachers' assignments for children. (This document previously announced as ED 042 772.) (MF)