Children Writing Poems: Poetic Voices in and Out of School

ISBN-13: 9781138023451 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 140 str.

Janine Certo

Opis

Though there are numerous practitioner books about teaching poetry in schools, there are few which take a scholarly approach to writing and performing poetry at the elementary school level. This volume demonstrates how the social and instructional worlds that children inhabit influence their poetry writing and performances.　 Drawing on rich vignettes of students from different racial, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds, it describes and analyzes the work of eight to ten year-old U.S. students involved in a month-long poetry unit. It outlines the value of a 'poetic-functional' approach to help children convey a poem's meaning and mood through form, and expresses the need for educators to scaffold children's oral readings and performances over time. Researchers, higher education faculty, and graduate students in elementary education, literacy, and language will find this book essential reading.

Recenzje

"Researcher Janine Certo investigates the many instructional and social influences that shape the poetry writing and performance of elementary school students. Bringing to bear the newest methodologies, Certo analyzes and offers new ideas for how to most productively teach poetry to younger students in order to create interested and capable lifelong writers and readers of poetry. Certo’s voice is one all who are interested in giving children voice need to hear." - Michael Theune, Illinois Wesleyan University, USA

O autorze

Janine L. Certo is Associate Professor of Language and Literacy at Michigan State University, USA.