
How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 8-13
Developing Creative Literacy
Michaela Morgan(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 7. February 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
104 pages
978-0-415-59014-3 (ISBN)
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Description
Now in a fully revised and extended second edition, How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 8-13 is a practical and activity based resource of writing workshops to help you teach poetry in the primary classroom. Designed to help build writing, speaking and listening skills, this book contains a wide selection of workshops exemplifying a variety of poetry styles and showing how their unique features can be used to teach key literacy skills. This book includes:
redrafting and revising activities;
poetry writing frames;
traditional and contemporary poems from a range of cultures;
poems written by children about their favourite subjects;
word games and notes on performing poetry;
cross-curricular links;
new workshops on performance poetry, wordplay, rhyming and unrhyming poetry senses and narrative poetry;
an A-Z Guide to Poetry.
Featuring a wealth of poems and a new bibliography to help you find the perfect poem for a lesson, this book will be of interest to all teachers looking to develop the necessary skills in their pupils to become confident writers of poetry.
redrafting and revising activities;
poetry writing frames;
traditional and contemporary poems from a range of cultures;
poems written by children about their favourite subjects;
word games and notes on performing poetry;
cross-curricular links;
new workshops on performance poetry, wordplay, rhyming and unrhyming poetry senses and narrative poetry;
an A-Z Guide to Poetry.
Featuring a wealth of poems and a new bibliography to help you find the perfect poem for a lesson, this book will be of interest to all teachers looking to develop the necessary skills in their pupils to become confident writers of poetry.
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Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Illustrations
20 s/w Abbildungen
20 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 210 mm
Weight
294 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-59014-3 (9780415590143)
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Person
Michaela Morgan is a practising poet, children's author, writer and former teacher. She runs workshops and courses in the UK and internationally.
Content
Acknowledgements Introduction - Writers' Workshop A to Z of Poetry Workshop 1. Licensed to Thrill - performing poetry Workshop 2. Monday's Child - rhyming couplets Workshop 3. The Day the Zoo Escaped - redrafting Workshop 4. Every Word Counts - awareness of syllables, haiku Workshop 5. Fin Flapper - kennings Workshop 6. Waves - shape/concrete poetry Workshop 7. Further On - wordplay Workshop 8. Space Rap - performance poetry Workshop 9. The Robin - rhyming or unrhyming poetry Workshop 10. Poem Hunt - senses Workshop 11. I am a Baggy T-Shirt - Metaphor Workshop 12. The Sound Collector - onomatopoeia Workshop 13. Nocturnophobia - personification Workshop 14. Three - levels of meaning Workshop 15. December - different cultures and voices Workshop 16. Hubble Bubble - classic and contemporary Workshop 17. Charge of the Light Brigade - narrative poetry Workshop 18. The Dead Quire - challenging narrative poetry