Ages 5-18
Poems Please! Sharing Poetry with Children
Bill Moore & David Booth
This bestseller offers everything you will need to inspire students to write and experience poetry as they build language skills. This comprehensive guide combines the rich history of poetry with sample poems and simple, ready to use classroom activities.
It answers all your questions surrounding poetry in the classroom, including:
- From poems old and new to celebrating children's poetry
- How do poems work? Painting pictures with words to tricks of the trade
- Why should we share poems with children? From increasing word power to poetry as a way of thinking.
The book also covers:
- Presenting poems - including using narration and mime
- Using riddles, personification and stream of consciousness
- Classroom concerns - assessment techniques, tips for choosing and displaying poems
- Bibliography of the very best children's poetry anthologies and books for children
2003 160pp paperback
978-1-978155138-157-2
£19.99
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