The profile of poetry aloud is rising due to recent changes in the National Curriculum and the popularity of recitation competitions. This unique book explores the connection between poetry and literacy development through current psychological theory. Taking an experimental perspective, it covers current developmental and neuroscientific theories about phonology, prosody and metrical structure to explain how rhyme and rhythm are crucial for emerging literacy. Based on never-before published findings, the authors provide the rationale for a novel poetic intervention that explores this link, and its implications for the contemporary classroom. It will be of great interest to students and researchers in language and literacy development, as well as teachers and those working in educational policy.
This is Book 1 in the Essays in Developmental Psychology Series. See all Essays in Developmental Psychology books here.
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Kathy Hall is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education at University College Cork.
Usha Goswami is Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.
Colin Harrison has a personal chair in Literacy Studies in Education at the University of Nottingham.
Sue Ellis is Reader in Literacy an
