How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 8-13: Developing Creative Literacy

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Now in a fully revised and extended second edition, How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 8-13 is a practical and activity based resource of writing workshops to help you teach poetry in the primary classroom. Designed to help build writing, speaking and listening skills, this book contains a wide selection of workshops exemplifying a variety of poetry styles and showing how their unique features can be used to teach key literacy skills. This book includes:

  • redrafting and revising activities;
  • poetry writing frames;
  • traditional and contemporary poems from a range of cultures;
  • poems written by children about their favourite subjects;
  • word games and notes on performing poetry;
  • cross-curricular links;
  • new workshops on performance poetry, wordplay, rhyming and unrhyming poetry senses and narrative poetry;
  • an A-Z Guide to Poetry.
Featuring a wealth of poems and a new bibliography to help you find the perfect poem for a lesson, this book will be of interest to all teachers looking to develop the necessary skills in their pupils to become confident writers of poetry.

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This is Book 5 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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