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

Writers' Workshop

by Michaela Morgan

Now in a fully revised and extended second edition, How to Teach Poetry 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 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.

104 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 2010