The book covers the teaching of literacy to children aged 5-14, with the emphasis on 5-11. (The material for older students means that the book applies to middle schools as well as primaries). Each chapter shows how students/pupils can develop their own writing skills by learning from passages of great literature. Each section includes: passages from literature; teaching approaches; examples of children's work. The book is rooted in the classroom and practical in nature. The literary texts are in photocopiable format.

 

There are 231 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .

Fred Sedgwick is a freelance lecturer and writer. He works in schools, colleges, teachers' centres and universities specializing in children's writing and poetry and lecturing on Shakespeare and children.

This book has the following chapters: 1. Fiction 2. Poetry the teacher 3. Feigning Poetry 4. Fragments: more than one kind of prose 5. A part of experience, a part of school 6. Two big guns: Chaucer and Shakespeare 7. Creativity and Creation Indexes (see "key features")