Binding: Paperback
Description: Poetry can enable learners to engage learn and have fun whatever their cognitive linguistic or social levels and this book provides a great many examples of how this might be achieved. This exciting and innovative text provides a wide range of ideas for using poetry to enhance the early years and primary curricula and therefore the learning experience of all children. Each chapter contains ideas for pedagogy and practice underpinned by research and classroom experience ensuring that practitioners will come away feeling much more confident to teach this genre and better enjoy poetry themselves. Throughout there are discussions around specific pedagogies and practices relating to the use of poetry across the curriculum as well as resources including a wide range of poems from diverse countries and cultures and poems in different languages and activities which can immediately be used in the classroom. Ideas are provided in terms of how poems can be employed in different subject areas to introduce or reinforce concepts engage children in more challenging concepts ensure that lessons are fun and engaging and develop children's awareness of other people and places beyond their immediate experience. This book is an extremely powerful combination of informed discussion drawing on ideas from different theoretical perspectives including recent findings from neuroscience and practical suggestions for every classroom. Armed with this text practitioners will not only have a very strong idea of how to use poetry to enhance their curriculum but also why this is such a compelling genre.
Title: Poetry And The 3 - 11 Curriculum Enhancing The Learning Experience
Author(s): Bower Virginia
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367722791
Pages: 136 Pages, 5 Line Drawings, Black And White; 1 Halftones, Black And White; 6 Illustrations, Black An
Publication Date: 11/1/2022
Category: Primary & Middle Schools