
Off By Heart
Poems for Children to Learn, Remember and Perform
Roger Stevens(Author)
A & C Black (Childrens books) (Publisher)
Published on 6. June 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-4081-9294-8 (ISBN)
Description
A brilliant, dip-in collection of poems to be read aloud, with tips and advice on how to be the best poetry performer!
This wonderful anthology is full of poems that are easy to remember and perfect for reciting out loud. It includes new, modern and classic poems, ranging from very short to long and written by a diverse range of poets from Joshua Seigal to Christina Rossetti and from Lewis Carrol to Debjani Chatterjee. The poems are arranged in order of length, making it easy to select the right poem for every level. Featuring tips for readers, teachers and parents on how to memorise poems and on performing them out loud, this book is perfect for the memorising and performance elements in the primary National Curriculum.
Book Band: Brown
Aimed at readers aged 7+
This wonderful anthology is full of poems that are easy to remember and perfect for reciting out loud. It includes new, modern and classic poems, ranging from very short to long and written by a diverse range of poets from Joshua Seigal to Christina Rossetti and from Lewis Carrol to Debjani Chatterjee. The poems are arranged in order of length, making it easy to select the right poem for every level. Featuring tips for readers, teachers and parents on how to memorise poems and on performing them out loud, this book is perfect for the memorising and performance elements in the primary National Curriculum.
Book Band: Brown
Aimed at readers aged 7+
Reviews / Votes
This is an unusual approach to a collection of poems and one that will make the book very popular with teachers. * www.parentsintouch.co.uk * All have interesting themes and many are funny. Stevens stresses in his tips sections that, above all, to be motivated to learn the poems and to put them across, the children need to like and understand what they are reading. There should be no difficulty with that. * www.booksforkeeps.co.uk * "If you don't like a poem," says Roger Stevens in a useful section for teachers and parents at the back of this book "why would you want to remember it?" This book is a very good start for any teacher unsure of how to implement Government advice about learning poems by heart. * Armadillo Magazine * The poetry collection, with its...careful selection of appropriate poems, should appeal to child readers...a useful addition to primary school library shelves. * The School Librarian * Roger Stevens does it again with another engaging and enjoyable poetry book...with fun always to the fore. * Primary Teacher Update *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Children/juvenile
Illustrations
10 mono
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
86 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4081-9294-8 (9781408192948)
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E-Book
06/2013
1st Edition
A & C Black (Childrens books)
€7.49
Available for download

E-Book
06/2013
1st Edition
A & C Black (Childrens books)
€7.49
Available for download
Person
Roger Stevens is a poet, author, musician and artist. He has had more than twenty five books published and his poems have appeared in more than two hundred anthologies. Roger performs his poetry in schools, libraries and festivals and runs creative writing workshops for young and old. Roger founded the award-winning Poetry Zone website.