Writers' Workshop
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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.
Now in a fully revised third edition, How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 5–9 is a practical, activity-based resource of poetry writing workshops. Each workshop provides enjoyable activities for pupils, aimed at building enjoyment and understanding of what poetry is and how to write it. Aiming to encourage speaking and listening skills as well as developing writing, this book includes:
- new workshops and a new emphasis on cross-curricular links;
- spelling, punctuation and grammar approached in an enjoyable and memorable way via poetry;
- redrafting and revising activities;
- poetry writing frames;
- traditional and contemporary poems from diverse cultures;
- children’s own poems on their favourite subjects;
- performance poetry;
- word games, nonsense and invented words;
- an A to Z guide to poetry, providing terminology, examples and a fund of further lesson ideas;
- a very extensive bibliography to encourage further reading and reading for enjoyment.
This book provides teachers with a wealth of material and the inspiration to create a class of enthusiastic and skilled readers, writers and listeners.
Each workshop has been trailed in classrooms across the country, and is linked to NLS objectives.
