Since my goal for kids is to build a generation of word-lovers. Persons who are sensitive to themselves and their worlds and to the power of their language. Persons who are willing and able to put into words their feelings, beliefs, blases, ideas, wonderings and wildest fantasies... My goals for this book are: To get you excited about writing-just for yourself! To turn you on to writing with kids. To encourage you to take the risks and plunge into the work of teaching writing, and to reap the harvests of that risk and work: the closer human contact, the freer flow of expression, the advances in language skills, and the just plain fun! To give you tips for handling the whole writing process int he classroom or other writing setting. To present you with enough ideas and sources of ideas for motivating writing experiences that you will never again run out of inspirtation! And possibly to give you a whole new look at writing - maybe even to entirely revolutionize your thinking of what it i