Author(s): Michaela Morgan
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 104
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Language: English
Date Published: 2016-04-11
Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd New edition
Illustrations: 20 Illustrations, black and white

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.