Off By Heart
Poems for Children to Learn, Remember and Perform
1st Edition
Published on 21. June 2013
1 pages
978-1-4081-9295-5 (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+
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Children/juvenile
Illustrations
10 mono
ISBN-13
978-1-4081-9295-5 (9781408192955)
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Book
06/2013
A & C Black (Childrens books)
€10.50
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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.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- A Poem That, Despite Being Only One Word Long, Can Sometimes Make a Crowd be Quiet and can be Easily Understood by a Baby
- Visiting the Library
- What's the Difference?
- The Witch! The Witch!
- Feeling Sniffy
- Revenge
- An Autumn Greeting
- The Fly
- The Old Man of Blackheath
- Owl
- Old Doc Macdonald
- Hey Diddle Diddle
- At the Zoo
- Puddle Muddle
- The Crocodile's Brushing His Teeth
- Animal Sneezes
- Anything
- The Eccentric
- John Wesley
- Baby Seeds
- My Sari
- Flint
- The Crocodile
- Weave Me a Poem
- The Dragonfly
- I Went to the Animal Fair
- My Puppy
- Caterpillar
- Answer to a Child's Question
- The Butter Betty Bought
- Chicken Soup
- Like Grandad
- Gingerbread Man
- Bumpety, Bumpety, Bump!
- A Silver Birch
- Eletelephony
- The Moon
- Ways to Come to School
- Doggerel
- When I Swing
- Emergencies
- Big Red Boots
- What is Pink?
- The Rooks
- Performing Monkey
- Snow
- Fat Cat
- Chocolate in the House
- I Am a Princess
- Ladybird
- The Cat's Party
- Don't Be Such a Fusspot
- Zim Zam Zoom!
- Mrs Sprockett's Strange Machine
- There Are No Such Things as Monsters!!!
- Pirate Hat
- Whisper, Whisper
- My Little Pet Cattery
- The Chickens
- Little Raindrops
- The Garden Year
- The Way Through the Woods
- Have You Met A Wolf?
- The Jumblies
- Tips for Learning by Heart and Performing
- Make Learning Fun
- How to Learn Poems
- Tips for Memorisation
- Bring a Poem to Life with Performance
- Goodbye Rhyme!
- Acknowledgements and Copyrights
