1st Edition
Poetry - From Reading to Writing A Classroom Guide for Ages 7-11
Preface 1. Lists 2. Rhymes 3. Poems without rhymes 4. Haiku and related forms 5. Short Poems 6. Free verse and Chinese poems 7. Imagery and sound 8. Poems from stories 9. Riddles and nonsense 10. Poems with voices 11. Praise poems and prayers 12. Narrative poems 13. Poems from history and other places
Biography
Robert Hull’s four published collections of verse include two for children, Stargrazer (Hodder), shortlisted for the Signal prize, and Everest and Chips (OUP), shortlisted for the CLPE prize. He is the author of two much-praised books on teaching, Behind the Poem (Routledge) and The Language Gap (Methuen). He has 30 years’ experience of working in schools as a teacher and running workshops, and has published numerous anthologies of poetry and prose for children.
'I really liked the book. It manages to make writing sound simple and does so without ever being trite. I used several of the starter ideas with a group of very unconfident students who all got writing quickly and were very pleased with their efforts. It enabled them to see how they could work with children. My student felt it had helped her understand a subject that she knew virtually nothing about before. I'll certainly be asking for it to be put on reading lists.' - Liz Smart, Principal Lecturer, University of Chichester, UK
