Colorado Students Learn to Spin Thoughts Creatively

Publication: The Pueblo Chieftain
Date: July 22, 2010

Summary: Students' colorful and creative writing styles are flourishing through their participation in a week-long writing camp hosted by the Southern Colorado Writing Project at Colorado State University-Pueblo.

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A while later, Maria sat quietly at a corner table putting her thoughts into words that flowed freely across her sheet of paper.

The Avondale fifth-grader wrote vividly about how the goat felt and looked, and how it ate.

"When the goat eats from my hand, it tickles me. They don't eat like cows," Maria wrote. "When they eat, it sounds like they are munching chips."

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