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Every kind of poem teachers could wish for - all in one bumper book!
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THE WORKS is 10 years old and this special anniversary edition features brand-new lesson plans from poets including John Foster, Brian Moses, Valerie Bloom and Pie Corbett. THE WORKS contains every kind of poem you will ever need for the Literacy Hour but it is also a book packed with brilliant poems that will delight any reader. It's got chants, action verses, riddles, tongue twisters, shape poems, puns, acrostics, haikus, cinquains, kennings, couplets, thin poems, lists, conversations, monologues, epitaphs, songs, limericks, tankas, nonsense poems, raps, narrative verse and performance poetry that's just for starters. It features poems from the very best classic and modern poets, for example: William Blake, Michael Rosen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Allan Ahlberg, W.H. Auden, Brian Patten, Roger McGough, Roald Dahl, Charles Causley, Eleanor Farjeon, Benjamin Zephaniah, Ted Hughes, T.S. Eliot and William Shakespeare to name but a few. A book packed with gems for dipping in to time and time again.
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80 of 82 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is invaluable for teaching literacy in Primary Schools. As a 3rd Year trainee teacher this book has proved very useful. When presented with teaching a whole range of poetry in Year 6, the book provided the only basic reference source I needed. It has an easy format to follow by simply grouping the poems in poetry type for example, humourous and shape poems. I did use other poetry books to supplement the book such as, 'The Puffin book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry' edited by Brian Patten, which people would also find useful. By the amount of fellow trainee teachers who have this book I would recommend it to anybody.
77 of 80 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This marvelous anthology collects all manner of poems for children, from nursery rhymes and nonsense verse to haiku, shaped poems, chants, clerihews, and much more (about 380 poems in all). Many of the poems are clever and funny, which is good for children, but some of them are quiet, thoughtful, and even beautiful. So far, I don't think I've come across any that are needlessly sentimental. Plenty of the poems show a good sense of what it is like to be a child. My sons, ages 7 and 9, are enjoying the book enormously--they've forgotten to ask for poems from their earlier favorite collections. I believe this is the best anthology of poems for children that I know of. Parents, teachers, and kids will all find a great deal here to enjoy.
76 of 80 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As a practising Primary School teacher, this collection will be of great use to me. It has a copy of every possible type of poem that you would need in order to teach poetry effectively as part of the Literacy Hour. As the Literacy co-ordinator I am also tempted to buy a copy of this book for every class in the school.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Good overall
Book is very good thanks.
It was damaged on delivery though! Didn't have time to return it as I needed it for work 2 days later
It was damaged on delivery though! Didn't have time to return it as I needed it for work 2 days later
Published 8 months ago by Me
A must for teachers
A great book with every type of poem you will need. I use mine in the class all the time, the poems are child friendly and are a great starter to lessons. Well recommended.
Published 11 months ago by sianabanana
Excellent Poetry Book
Excellent Poetry Book. The Works contains a wide range of poem and fits nicely with the National Strategy. Read more
Published 17 months ago by J.P
A truely fabulous book
I purchased this item as a Beaver Scout Leader as it was recommended on the Scout Base Programmes on Line, since it arrived I have not stopped picking reading it, there are so many... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Ms. Caroline A. Chilvers
Disappointing!
As a Secondary teacher, I thought this book would come in handy for year 7 pupils who have made the initial transfer from Primary to Secondary school. Read more
Published on 19 July 2009 by Ayisha
Far too basic
This book has some good classic poems, but the modern ones are absolutely terrible, I have a hard time believing these people are professional poets. Read more
Published on 19 July 2009 by A. Hussain
Fabulous
An excellent book with a reasonable amount of poems in each section. Many are very well known, but there are also quite a lot that I had not heard before. Read more
Published on 23 Jan 2009 by E. Dawson
A great base for any poetry lesson
This book does exactly what it says, providing all the poetry you will need for literacy and more. I use it for most of my poetry ideas as it lists all the genres and provides good... Read more
Published on 26 Jan 2007 by Vicky Ward
A Wonderful Resource
This book is simply brilliant! It provides examples for all the types of poems necessary to teach the literacy hour. Read more
Published on 18 July 2004
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