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Inspiring children to read and write for pleasure : using literature to inspire literacy learning for ages 8-12 /
A marvellous book of great practical value' - James Carter. The lack of interest in reading for pleasure amongst large numbers of primary age pupils, put off by 'mechanical' worksheet-driven approaches, is a cause for major concern amongst education professionals and parents. However,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I. Prose: Introduction; 1. Absolute nonsense!; 2. Getting rid of common sense; 3. Characters; 4. Characters: Charles Dickens; 5. Action: Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island; 6. Biography: John Aubrey Brief Lives; 7. Journals; 8. Beginnings; 9. Finally ...
- Part II. Poetry: Introduction; The voice of anonymous: poems from the oral tradition; 1. How many blackberries grow in the sea? Nonsense verse, and children writing it; 2. Anonymous speaks again: nursery rhymes and other folk poetry; 3. A spiritual: 'Motherless child'; 4. More from the voice of anonymous ballads; 5. An anonymous alphabet; 6. Anonymous speaks from the grave: epitaphs; 7. And more from anonymous: riddles; 8. Anonymous at Christmas; 9. How many miles to Babylon?: a short anthology of anonymous poems
- Writing to Explore: Poems from the Written Tradition: Introduction; 1. Small explorations: some short poems; 2. Hymn: exploring where the rhyme takes you; 3. Exploring nonsense: Lewis Carroll; 4. Exploring the past: Thomas Hood; 5. John Clare: "Meet me in the green glen"; 6. Thomas Hardy: "To the moon"; 7. Too wonderful for me: something from the Bible; 8. Exploring Geoffrey Chaucer: a start; 9. Rupert Brooke's favourite things; 10. A voice from the United States of America: Walt Whitman; 11. Gerard Hopkins
- Appendix: a short anthology of poems of the season.