How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 5-9

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Now in a fully revised and extended second edition, How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 5-9 is a practical, activity based resource of poetry writing workshops for teachers of primary age children. Each workshop provides enjoyable activities for pupils aimed at building a thorough understanding of what poetry is and how to write it. Aiming to encourage speaking and listening skills, this book includes:


  • three new workshops - Feelings, Licensed to Thrill and The Jumblies
  • redrafting and revising activities
  • poetry writing frames
  • traditional and contemporary poems from varied cultures
  • children's' own poems on their favourite subjects
  • guidance on how to write poems
  • word games and notes on performing poetry
  • an A-Z Guide to Poetry.

Updated to include cross-curricular links and a new expansive bibliography, this book provides teachers with a wealth of material andall the necessary skills to create a class of enthusiastic poetry writers.

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This is Book 4 in the Writers' Workshop Series. See all Writers' Workshop books here.

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Michaela Morgan is a long-established children's author with a string of bestselling titles to her name, including the Rockets quartet, Silly Sausage. She has been shortlisted for the Children's Book of the Year, been an International Reading Association Children's Choice and won a United Kingdom Reading Association award.

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