Writing to Learn Poetry and Literacy Across the Primary Curriculum

Writing to Learn looks at how poetry can be used as an enjoyable way to teach literacy across the curriculum. It includes examples of poems and stories by children and clear descriptions of how to teach creatively within the framework of the National Literacy Strategy. This book includes: cross-curriculum approaches with sections on poetry and science; poetry and personal, social and moral education; poetry and art and music; poetry and religious education advice on different ways children can compose their writing and how computers can be a valuable aid to children's writing examples of published poetry and how it can be used to stimulate good writing advice on bringing writers into schools and publishing school anthologies This book will prove invaluable to teachers and parents keen to teach writing who see children as active and critical learners. It shows that if we expect great things from children in writing, we get them.Sedgwick, Fred is the author of 'Writing to Learn Poetry and Literacy Across the Primary Curriculum', published 2001 under ISBN 9780415224147 and ISBN 0415224144.