How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 8-13 - 9781138024922

Taylor & Francis

How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 8-13Developing Creative Literacy\nAuthor(s): Michaela Morgan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138024922, 978-1138024922\nSynopsis\nThis fully revised and extended third edition of How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 813 is a practical and activity-based resource of writing workshops to help you teach poetry. Designed to build writing, reading, speaking and listening skills, this new edition contains a widened selection of workshops exemplifying a variety of poetry styles, both classic and contemporary.\n\nHighlighting how the unique features of poetry can be used to teach literary skills, this book:\n\nincludes new workshops which introduce, or consolidate, spelling, punctuation and grammar skills;\n\nencourages debate, discussion, performance and empathy;\n\noffers a new focus on confidence building and creativity using performance, rhythm, rhyme and ra.