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Offers a writing workshop for grade school students. Way to introduce children to text structures; Ways to organize words; Examples of transitions.

Presents ideas for guiding the young authors in one's classroom in their creative expression. Use of Janet Wong's poems to inspire students to write creatively; Techniques for making books children will treasure; Creating handmade paper; Guide to getting published.

Suggests to elementary teachers the use of posters to show students how authors use writing devices in their work. Activities to help students create their own literary work.

Focuses on `Unfold a Story' board, an interactive class project designed for grades K-3 to engage students in creating collaborative stories while honing writing skills. Book-making process; Variations on the theme.

Presents excerpts from the book `Prose and Poetry for Young Readers and Writers,' by Cornelius Novelli. Offering tips to elementary teachers on developing their students' writing skills.

Suggests to elementary teachers the use of picture books as a tool for teaching the elements of writing. Reading a book before the class to let students know how the author uses rhetorical devices; `Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke.'

Presents definitions and examples of writing devices. Simile; Metaphor; Personification; Alliteration; Onomatophea; Consonance; Assonance.

Recommends to teachers the book `Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke,' by Pamela Duncan Edwards, as a reference for teaching alliteration to their elementary students. Follow-up writing activities.

Presents a personification activity used by third grade teacher Donna Clovis in her writing workshop.

Offers tips to elementary teachers on how to conduct a game show that will teach students about metaphor and personifications. Writing riddles describing objects by comparing them with other things or by writing about them as living things.

Details the method used by Donna Clovis, an ESL/language arts teacher with the Riverdale School District in Riverdale, New Jersey, for teaching alliteration in her writing class. Finding newspaper articles that use alliteration in the leads; Literary uses of alliteration.

Shares author Kent Alexander's favorite lesson to introduce figures of speech and other writing devices to elementary students.