Now in a fully revised and extended second edition, How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 8-13 is a practical and activity based resource of writing workshops to help you teach poetry in the primary classroom. Designed to help build writing, speaking and listening skills, this book contains a wide selection of workshops exemplifying a variety of poetry styles and showing how their unique features can be used to teach key literacy skills. This book includes:
- redrafting and revising activities;
- poetry writing frames;
- traditional and contemporary poems from a range of cultures;
- poems written by children about their favourite subjects;
- word games and notes on performing poetry;
- cross-curricular links;
- new workshops on performance poetry, wordplay, rhyming and unrhyming poetry senses and narrative poetry;
- an A-Z Guide to Poetry.
Featuring a wealth of poems and a new bibliography to help you find the perfect poem for a lesson, this book will be of interest to all teachers looking to develop the necessary skills in their pupils to become confident writers of poetry.
Acknowledgements Introduction - Writers Workshop A to Z of Poetry
Workshop
1. Licensed to Thrill - performing poetry Workshop
2. Mondays
Child rhyming couplets Workshop
3. The Day the Zoo Escaped redrafting
Workshop
4. Every Word Counts awareness of syllables, haiku Workshop
5.
Fin Flapper kennings Workshop
6. Waves - shape/concrete poetry Workshop
7. Further On wordplay Workshop
8. Space Rap - performance poetry
Workshop
9. The Robin - rhyming or unrhyming poetry Workshop
10. Poem Hunt
senses Workshop
11. I am a Baggy T-Shirt Metaphor Workshop
12. The Sound
Collector onomatopoeia Workshop
13. Nocturnophobia personification
Workshop
14. Three - levels of meaning Workshop
15. December - different
cultures and voices Workshop
16. Hubble Bubble - classic and contemporary
Workshop
17. Charge of the Light Brigade - narrative poetry Workshop
18. The
Dead Quire - challenging narrative poetry
Michaela Morgan is a practising poet, childrens author, writer and former teacher. She runs workshops and courses in the UK and internationally.
