Course Details The new proposed curriculum recommends that children should respond creatively andcritically to a wide range of verse forms. They should learn how to perform poetry fluentlyand listen and respond to verse of all kinds, material which will arouse their interest inand develop a love of this form of writing.This workshop will suggest a range of exciting, challenging and appropriate texts foruse in the classroom to encourage young readers and act as models for their own poetrywriting. This will be a practical session with ideas and strategies for teachers to use inschool.Participants will be given:An opportunity to view and assess a range of appropriate resources to use in theclassroom.The chance to explore a variety of strategies and practical approaches for appreciatingand writing poetry...
The new proposed curriculum recommends that children should respond creatively andcritically to a wide range of verse forms. They should learn how to perform poetry fluentlyand listen and respond to verse of all kinds, material which will arouse their interest inand develop a love of this form of writing.This workshop will suggest a range of exciting, challenging and appropriate texts foruse in the classroom to encourage young readers and act as models for their own poetrywriting. This will be a practical session with ideas and strategies for teachers to use inschool.Participants will be given:An opportunity to view and assess a range of appropriate resources to use in theclassroom.The chance to explore a variety of strategies and practical approaches for appreciatingand writing poetry...
Professor Gervase Phinn taught in a range of schools for fourteen years, before becoming an education advisor and school inspector.He is now a freelance lecturer, broadcaster, author and poet. He is a former President of the School Library Association. Gervase Phinn is probably best known for his five best-selling autobiographical novels based on his life as a school inspector in North Yorkshire, books which he read on the Radio 4 programme, ‘Book of the Week’. ‘Head Over Heels’ in the Dales was a number one best-seller. In addition, he has published a wide range of poetry, short stories, nonfiction material, plays and academic texts. His early memoir ‘Road to theDales: The Story of a Yorkshire Lad’ published by Penguin, was an instant best-seller.