How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 8-13, Developing Creative Literacy

This fully revised and extended third edition of 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. 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.

Highlighting how the unique features of poetry can be used to teach literary skills, this book:

• includes new workshops which introduce, or consolidate, spelling, punctuation and grammar skills;
• encourages debate, discussion, performance and empathy;
• offers a new focus on confidence building and creativity using performance, rhythm, rhyme and rap;
• explores the use of poetry for vocabulary enhancement;
• encourages reading for pleasure;
• provides an A to Z guide to poetry and poetry terminology plus a very extensive bibliography enabling you to keep up to date with poetry and poetry resources;
• represents diverse cultures;
• highlights cross-curricular links.

Promoting creativity, achievement, mastery and enjoyment, How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 8–13 provides teachers with a wealth of material and the inspiration to create a class of enthusiastic and skilled readers, writers, listeners and performers.