Writing to Learn : Poetry and Literacy across the Primary Curriculum

ISBN-13: 9780415224130 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 208 str.

Fred Sedgwick

Opis

This practical text shows primary school teachers how they can teach literacy across the curriculum using poetry. Creative writing and poetry are coming back into fashion as the drive for literacy and rigorous testing take hold. This book goes through the primary curriculum, subject by subject: poetry and science and maths; poetry and personal, social and moral education; poetry and art and music; poetry and religious education; and poetry for its own sake. This Literacy Hour resource should: help teachers struggling to find captivating activities for the all important Literacy Hour; help teachers develop Literacy Hour work which is enjoyable; incorporate important themes around personal, social and moral development; assist in work in IT and computer work; and be whole curriculum friendly, therefore OFSTED friendly.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I: Poetry and Science 1. Observing the Human Body 2. Fruit and Other Natural Things 3. Bicycles and Other Machines 4. Cats and Other Animals Footnote: some haikus and some riddles Prose Interlude: Children and their Names Part II: Poetry and Personal, Social and Moral Education 5. Me and the Rest of the World 6. Lists Part III: Putting Art in Prison to Set it Free 7. Pattern 8. Using Visual Images 9. Art and Multicultural Education 10. Poetry for Its Own Sake Prose Interlude: Stories and Beginning a Novel 11. 'So help me God': Poetry and Religious Education Appendices Bringing Living Writers into the Classroom Learning by Heart

O autorze

Fred Sedgwick