Let's do poetry in primary schools: Full of practical, fun and meaningful ways of celebrating poetry

Description

Let's Do Poetry in Primary School is a fun, accessible and very practical guide to give teachers the tools, the mindset and the confidence to put poetry at the heart of the classroom, and everyday learning. The book includes games and warm-ups, ideas for cross-curricular activities, an anthology of age appropriate poems, tools for reading and performing poems, setting up a poetry-rich classroom and ultimately, shows all it takes is six or so poetic forms with which to create language-rich and expressive responses to all the topic and curricular work that you cover in the academic year.

James Carter is an educational writer, INSET provider and one of the most high profile children's poets in the UK today. A former lecturer in creative writing and children's literature at the University of Reading, he now travels all over the UK and abroad to visit schools, libraries and book festivals to give lively performances, workshops, INSET sessions and gifted & talented days. James has been writer-in-residence in numerous Primary schools across the south of England. A prize-winning and widely-anthologised poet, his poetry collections include Cars Stars Electric Guitars (Walker Books), Time-Travelling Underpants, Greetings, Earthlings!, Journey To The Centre Of My Brain (Macmillan), Hey, Little Bug! (Francis Lincoln). Over the last ten years, James has written four widely-used and critically-acclaimed creative writing books for KS2&3 (all Taylor & Francis).

Excellent book to spark off ideas for poetry in older children. ...Innovative ideas of how to explore the many forms of poetry. * Primary Teacher update awards *