1st Edition
Writing to Learn Poetry and Literacy across the Primary Curriculum
By Fred Sedgwick
Copyright 2000
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Writing to Learn looks at how poetry can be used as an enjoyable way to teach literacy across the curriculum. It includes remarkable poems and stories by children as well as clear descriptions of how to teach creatively within the framework of the National Literacy Strategy. The book goes through the primary curriculum, subject by subject: *Poetry and Science and Maths *Poetry and Personal,... Read more
Introduction Part I: Poetry and Science 1. Observing the Human Body 2. Fruit and Other Natural Things 3. Bicycles and Other Machines 4. Cats and Other Animals Footnote: some haikus and some riddles Prose Interlude: Children and their Names Part II: Poetry and Personal, Social and Moral Education 5. Me and the Rest of the World 6. Lists Part III: Putting Art in Prison to Set it Free 7. Pattern 8. Using Visual Images 9. Art and Multicultural Education 10. Poetry for Its Own Sake Prose Interlude: Stories and Beginning a Novel 11. 'So help me God': Poetry and Religious Education Appendices Bringing Living Writers into the Classroom Learning by Heart
Biography
Fred Sedgwick
