Drafting and Assessing Poetry

Produktbeschreibung

Drafting and Assessing Poetry offers a range of teaching strategies for developing students' poetry writing skills, and guidance about assessment approaches. Critical commentaries combine with illustrations of successful classroom practice to consider this essential but under-explored aspect of English teaching. Based on theory but with a practical dimension, the book engages readers in current critical debates about poetry teaching and its place in an assessment- driven curriculum. Contents:The Place of Poetry in the National Curriculum Drafting Poetry Using Poet's Drafts Poetry and ICT The Visiting Poet and Poetry Workshops Assessing Poetry The Context: Forty Years of Poetry Teaching