Poe-tree.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Evans Woolfe (Firm), Producer.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Inspirations ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Special education--Great Britain.

Special education.

Literature--Study and teaching--Great Britain.

Literature.

Poetry--Study and teaching--Great Britain.

Poetry.

Plays on words.

Genre:

Instructional television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (13 min.).

Place of Publication:

[London] : Teachers TV/UK Department of Education, 2006.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

Behaviour at The Meadows Special School is particularly challenging, but one man thinks he can get the students to write poems with the help of trees.The Meadows, Co. Durham, is a mixed secondary school for 60 socially, educationally and behaviourally disturbed pupils. Many of them also have real problems with literacy. Andy Croft has been visiting the school for six years and has developed ways of including children with a wide range of academic ability, demanding behaviours and limited contact with the written word. But he can't always be sure his methodologies will work. This year the weeks residency and resulting poems and pictures focus on trees , not just literal trees, but a Secre-tree , a His-tree, and a Laver-tree , amongst others. The children enjoy wordplay and making visual representations of their poems, and describe some of their reasons for being here and their relationships to reading and writing. Y9 present their final piece in the girl's toilets.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012).

OCLC:

815780866