Shakespeare and the young writer / Fred Sedgwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sedgwick, Fred.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Study and teaching (Primary).

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Study and teaching--Great Britain.

Drama in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a practical book based on many years' work with primary aged children in schools. It looks at the ways in which teachers can build on reading, writing, speaking and listening, around starting points from the plays and poems.

Shakespeare and the Young Writer presents fascinating and impressive accounts of primary school children encountering Shakespeare's work for the first time. Fred Sedgwick shows how careful selection of scenes, lines and images from the plays and sonnets - in their original language - can be used to great effect as the starting point for children's writing. Examples of children's work show just how powerful the stimulus can be. The book will be of great value to all teachers looking for new ideas to improve their practice in teaching literacy. Shakespeare and the Young Writer presents fascinating and impressive accounts of primary school children encountering Shakespeare's work for the first time. Fred Sedgwick shows how careful selection of scenes, lines and images from the plays and sonnets - in their original language - can be used to great effect as the starting point for children's writing. Examples of children's work show just how powerful the stimulus can be. The book will be of great value to all teachers looking for new ideas to improve their practice in teaching literacy.

Contents:

Introduction 1. Mouth full of news: single lines and single speeches 2. Now it is the time of night: A Midsummer Night's Dream 3. A local habitation: The Tempest and As You Like It Interval: Thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot 4. How goes the night, boy? Macbeth 5. Bright smoke: Romeo and Juliet 6. Furious winter's rages: King Lear and Cymbeline 7. By heart 8. Faith, hope, love and teaching Afterword

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-156) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-68680-3

1-134-68681-1

1-280-19903-2

0-203-26717-6

0-203-05405-9

9780203054055

OCLC:

277619154