Writers at Play: Making the Space for Adolescents to Balance Imagination and Craft
"Writers at Play is a very important book-a must-read for everyone who teaches writing."-Judith Langer "Rather than a frill at the margins of the curriculum, Mary Adler argues forcefully that fiction writing can lie at the core of developing both language skills and depth of understanding."-Arthur Applebee "Creativity doesn't have to be sacrificed; it can be embraced. In the era of high stakes tests, Mary Adler reminds us that writing should be enjoyable."-Douglas Fisher "The balance...
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In Writers at Play Mary combines her own fresh ideas with current research and important thinking on the role of play and shows you how to strike the balance between prompts and improvisation by:developing writing exercises that build fiction technique and encourage imaginative playpromoting growth in craft with revision strategies and peer feedbackcreating space for unprompted writing so adolescents can find their own material and shape it for an audiencedesigning creative writing curricula that supports students writing and social development. For students, creating fiction can be a highly motivating process that yields high-quality student writing. The key, writes Mary Adler, is finding ways to allow the adventure while guiding the direction. Use Writers at Play and find a way to help even hard-to-reach students discover a passion for writing and improve the quality of their written work.
Foreword Elizabeth Quintero vAcknowledgments xIntroduction xii1 Exploring the Forces at Work During the Creative Writing Process 12 Exercises That Stimulate Play, Engage Students, and Build Technique: Finding the Balance to Create Productive Fictional Worlds 173 Managing Play Through Revision 574 Unprompted Writing: Learning How Writers Play 895 Buuding a Creative Writing Curriculum 121Book Study Guide 149Bibliography 157
