Writing to Learn: Poetry and Literacy Across the Primary CurriculumWriting 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, Social and Moral Education *Poetry and Art and Music *Poetry and Religious Education *Poetry for its Own Sake. The author includes: *advice on different ways children can compose their writing and how computers can be a valuable aid to children's writing *examples of published poetry and how it can be used to stimulate good writing *advice on bringing writers into schools and publishing school anthologies. This book will prove invaluable to teachers and parents keen to teach writing whilst seeing children as active and critical learners. It shows that if we expect great things from children in writing, we get the |
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Contents
Observing the human body | 3 |
Fruit vegetables and other natural things | 20 |
Bicycles and other machines | 28 |
Cats and other animals | 39 |
Children and their names | 59 |
PART II | 73 |
Me and the rest of the world | 75 |
Lists | 90 |
Art and multicultural education | 129 |
Poetry for its own sake | 143 |
Short stories and beginning a novel | 158 |
Poetry and religious education ix xi | 163 |
Bringing living poets into the classroom | 181 |
A selective glossary of terms useful in teaching writing | 191 |
A list of poems used in this book to help children to write | 199 |
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PART III | 109 |
Pattern | 111 |
Using visual images | 119 |
Other editions - View all
Writing to Learn: Poetry and Literacy across the Primary Curriculum Fred Sedgwick Limited preview - 2002 |
Writing to Learn: Poetry and Literacy across the Primary Curriculum Fred Sedgwick Limited preview - 2002 |
Writing to Learn: Poetry and Literacy Across the Primary Curriculum Fred Sedgwick No preview available - 2000 |
Common terms and phrases
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