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1 online resource (259 p.) |
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Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; Chapter 1 : Creating the Environment; Chapter 2 : Reading Poetry with Infants; Chapter 3 : Writing Poetry with Infants; Chapter 4 : Some Starting Points for Poetry with Juniors; Chapter 5 : Miniature Poems; Chapter 6 : Patterned Poems; Chapter 7 : Limericks; Chapter 8 : Clerihews; Chapter 9 : Alphabet Poems; Chapter 10 : Acrostic Poems; Chapter 11 : Concrete Poems; Chapter 12 : Riddles; Chapter 13 : Ballads; Chapter 14 : Cautionary Verse; Chapter 15 : Conversation Poems; Chapter 16 : Poems from Other Cultures; Chapter 17 : Poems from Experience |
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Chapter 18 : Poems from the EnvironmentChapter 19 : Poems from Poems; Chapter 20 : Poems from Photographs and Paintings; Chapter 21 : A Poetry Project: Myths and Legends; Chapter 22 : Poems of Praise; Chapter 23 : Poets in School; Chapter 24 : Learning Poetry; Chapter 25 : Endpiece; Twelve Edited Anthologies of Poetry; Twelve Individual Poetry Collections; About the Author; Acknowledgements; Praise for Teaching Poetry in the Primary Classroom; Further Reading; Copyright |
| Summary |
When asked by the school inspector what he thought of poetry, an eleven year old replied that ?it's all la-dida and daffodils, isn't it?" In his primary school the boy had come across very little poetry apart from nursery rhymes, snatches of rhyming verse and a few comic pieces and nonsense poems. Poetry to him was something arcane, not really related to his own life. He had studied no powerful, challenging, contemplative, arresting, quirky poems and had written very few poems himself. His teacher admitted that he was no English specialist, had received few ideas at college on the teachin |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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English |
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Poetry -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
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Poetry -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
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Education.
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Social Sciences.
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Theory & Practice of Education.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1845903757 |
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9781845903756 |
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1845902068 |
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9781845902063 |
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