The two volumes of this sourcebook are designed for elementary teachers to help encourage children's creativity. The volumes offer activities and suggestions for language arts teachers who are interested in a variety of approaches to helping children appreciate poetry; do elaborative thinking; understand generic and specific words; understand sentence patterns, sentence expansion, and sentence order; and ultimately transfer these disciplines to their own creative writing. The volumes are divided into sections which deal with grades 1-6. The activities include writing to music, descriptive writing, writing about pets, choral reading, listing similes, reading poetry, illustrating poems, and rearranging sentences. (TS)