Teaching Poetry in the Primary School: Perspectives for a New GenerationFirst Published in 1999. Based on the author's experience of teaching poetry to children for more thirty years, this book offers guidance on engaging young children minds in poetry in line with the Literacy Hour. |
Contents
Ways of Working with Poetry | |
Planning Assessment Recording and Reporting | |
Literacy Hour Lessons | |
Dreams and the Imagination | |
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Teaching Poetry in the Primary School: Perspectives for a New Generation David Carter Limited preview - 2013 |
Common terms and phrases
Allen Curnow alliteration Ask the children autumn Bachelard balloonman Caliban Carter child children to look children to write classroom Clwyd Poetry Project CP School dance Dennis Carter discuss Divide the class door drama dream engagement English experience eyes Faber feel focus Full fathom five glaw goblin haiku Harold Monro Heaney Hide and seek ideas imagine instance Key Stage kind Kubla Khan language learning lesson lines literacy hour London meanings metaphor Miroslav Holub movements National Curriculum National Literacy National Literacy Strategy nymph objects paintings Penguin picture play poem’s poetic poetry-writing poets practise primary school prime text Prospero punctuation pupils rain read the poem response reverie rhythm Seamus Heaney secondary texts Selected Poems share song sound story teacher teaching Ted Hughes tell things tree verse voices Where’s whole class Wild Iron wind words write poems written