Table of contents:
Introduction 1. Mouth full of news: single lines and single speeches 2. Now it is the time of night: A Midsummer Night's Dream 3. A local habitation: The Tempest and As You Like It Interval: Thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot 4. How goes the night, boy? Macbeth 5. Bright smoke: Romeo and Juliet 6. Furious winter's rages: King Lear and Cymbeline 7. By heart 8. Faith, hope, love and teaching Afterword
Shakespeare and the Young Writer presents fascinating and impressive accounts of primary school children encountering Shakespeare's work for the first time.
Fred Sedgwick shows how careful selection of scenes, lines and images from the plays and sonnets - in their original language - can be used to great effect as the starting point for children's writing. Examples of children's work show just how powerful the stimulus can be. The book will be of great value to all teachers looking for new ideas to improve their practice in teaching literacy.
This book looks at ways in which teachers can build upon children's reading, writing, listening and speaking skills from around starting points in Shakespeare's poems and plays.
Introduction 1. Mouth full of news: single lines and single speeches 2. Now it is the time of night: A Midsummer Night's Dream 3. A local habitation: The Tempest and As You Like It Interval: Thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot 4. How goes the night, boy? Macbeth 5. Bright smoke: Romeo and Juliet 6. Furious winter's rages: King Lear and Cymbeline 7. By heart 8. Faith, hope, love and teaching Afterword
Shakespeare and the Young Writer presents fascinating and impressive accounts of primary school children encountering Shakespeare's work for the first time.
Fred Sedgwick shows how careful selection of scenes, lines and images from the plays and sonnets - in their original language - can be used to great effect as the starting point for children's writing. Examples of children's work show just how powerful the stimulus can be. The book will be of great value to all teachers looking for new ideas to improve their practice in teaching literacy.
This book looks at ways in which teachers can build upon children's reading, writing, listening and speaking skills from around starting points in Shakespeare's poems and plays.