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- ISBN: 9780415590143 | 0415590140
- Cover: Nonspecific Binding
- Copyright: 3/18/2011
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.