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Writing to learn : poetry and literacy across the primary curriculum / Fred Sedgwick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sedgwick, Fred.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry--Study and teaching (Elementary).
- Poetry.
- Poetry--Authorship--Study and teaching (Elementary).
- Language experience approach in education.
- Creative writing (Elementary education)--Great Britain.
- Creative writing (Elementary education).
- Literacy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge / Falmer, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Writing to Learn looks at how poetry can be used as an enjoyable way to teach literacy across the curriculum. It includes remarkable poems and stories by children as well as clear descriptions of how to teach creatively within the framework of the National Literacy Strategy. The 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 *Poetry for its Own Sake. The author includes: *advice on different ways children ca
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; The principles; Introduction; Poetry and science; Observing the human body; Fruit, vegetables and other natural things; Bicycles and other machines; Cats and other animals; Poetry and Personal, Social and Moral Education; Me and the rest of the world; Lists; Putting art in prison to set it free; Pattern; Using visual images; Art and multicultural education; Poetry for its own sake; 'So help me God': Poetry and religious education; Appendices; Bringing living poets into the classroom; A word about learning by heart
- A selective glossary of terms useful in teaching writingA list of poems used in this book to help children to write; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-85997-081-8
- 1-134-59244-2
- 1-134-59245-0
- 0-203-18982-5
- 0-203-18629-X
- 1-280-40227-X
- 9780203186299
- OCLC:
- 56916342
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