The guide provides enrichment suggestions for teaching personal writing skills to gifted and talented intermediate students. The unit is organized according to objectives, entry skills, teacher's approaches, student activities, resources, and followup/evaluation. Topics covered include the following: formal and informal diction; sentences to expand one's feelings; letters of complaint; different styles (editorial, lyrical, poetic, dramatic); subjunctive vs. objective statements; dress; food; public word vs. private thought; expansion from a proverb or quotation; doodling; opening lines; dialogues between opposite parts of personality; journalism; and journal writing. (CL)