The purpose of offering this resource to teachers is to provide support for the use of creative writing in the classroom to address Arizona's academic writing standard.
Creative writing plays an important role in all of our lives.
It teaches us about the power and possibility of language and what it can accomplish when used skillfully. The overall goal for this page is to not only share instructional ideas and resources for teaching writing, but to broaden the ways in which we approach the academic standards as a whole. Examples of the relationship between creative writing and the objectives found in the K-12 writing standard. Identification of issues commonly associated with writing instruction. A general summary of the Six-Trait Writing Rubric.