A Creative Approach to Teaching Rhythm and Rhyme
1st Edition
Published on 23. April 2015
64 pages
978-1-4729-1910-6 (ISBN)
Description
The content of this book is based on the Andy Croft's experience of working with children in over 400 UK schools and will provide teachers with ideas, games, examples and models that they can use in the classroom to encourage their children to become writers and readers through the practice of rhyme and rhythm. He strongly believes that you don't have to be 'good at English' to be able to enjoy the music of ordinary speech. Using rhythm and rhyme is a democratic creative act that is equally hard and equally easy for everyone. It has special rules which won't let you reach for the first word that comes into your head. Your words have to fit the pattern. You don't have to write anything down, but you do have to become a writer. And once you have become a writer, you might become a reader...
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-1910-6 (9781472919106)
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04/2015
Bloomsbury Education
€38.56
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Person
Andy Croft has written over forty non-fiction books (mostly about football) and four novels for teenagers. He has also written nine books of poetry and edited many poetry anthologies. Dead Wood is his second title for A & C Black's Wired series.
Content
- Cover
- HalfTitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Rhythm and rhyme
- Aims of the book
- The author
- 1 I can hear with my little ear: word games
- Our school
- Everywhere we go
- Nursery rhyme knock-out
- Red, blue and green
- Hey Tim
- Three lions
- Tick-tock
- Straight-faced
- Yes and no
- Yes and no in Bulgarian
- I spy rhymes
- Name game
- Fortune telling
- 2 Round and around and around: repetition and rhythm
- One Man Went to Mow
- Chicken Licken
- There's a Hole in Our Classroom
- Peanuts
- For Want of a Nail
- The House that Jack Built
- 3 Rhymery primary: using rhyme in the classroom
- Rhyme watch
- What rhyme is it Mr Wolf?
- The noisy farmyard
- The plum was too big
- Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
- I Know an Old Woman
- Rhyming food
- Rhyming holidays
- Rhyming jobs
- Rhyming pets
- Rhyming colours
- Rhyming football fans
- 4 Don't write anything down: whole-class improvisations
- The Howl in the Hall
- Voting with your imagination
- Whole-school adventure
- Zoo time
- Sound story poems
- Sound story-picture-poems
- Sound and shape story poems
- 5 Writing with your ears: sound and rhythm
- Bananas
- Snooky
- Brillig
- Sausages
- Head, shoulders, pigs and ducks
- Ben's bedroom
- Alliteration à la carte
- Sibilance
- Clever clogs
- Kennings
- Tongue twisters
- Spoonerisms
- Number PL8 poems
- Book titles
- Punland
- Knock-knock
- Holiday in Punland
- 6 Reading the metre: syllables and patterns
- Name syllables
- Stressed syllables
- Slugs don't like marmalade
- Everywhere that Mary went
- Iambs
- Trochees
- Skipping rhythms
- Variations
- Masculine rhymes
- Feminine rhymes
- Long words and short words
- Half rhymes
- Assonance
- Different spelling, same sound
- Same spelling, different sound
- No rhymes
- When and where to rhyme
- Hidden rhymes
- Stanzas
- 7 Simile - you're on camera: non-rhyming poetry
- Poetry pies
- Do-it-yourself (DIY) poems
- Direction poems
- How to wear a pair of trousers
- The colour of emotion
- Slow-mo poems
- Animal songs
- Zoom!
- Look closer
- A house made of books
- Just
- If
- Poer-trees
- Afterword
- Recommended resources
