This book builds on the guidance given by the Primary Strategy for Literacy. By 'filling in the gaps' that the planning documentation leaves, the book provides teachers with the structures and ideas to plan creatively and effectively for their children whilst following and enhancing the recommendations of the strategy. It includes:

• clear and practical ways to plan units of work that embrace reading, writing, speaking and listening, in exciting and active ways
• examples of effective practice using children's work that highlight the effects of creative planning
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This is a fresh and practical approach to examining the way in which creative arts can be used in the classroom to enhance the learning of literacy in the primary school. It includes case studies and activities that clarify the role of creativity in the literacy teaching and advises how to help develop teaching skills. This is a must-have text for teachers who seek to make literacy learning interesting and fun.

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.