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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450771903321

Autore

Sedgwick Fred.

Titolo

Read my mind : young children, poetry and learning / / Fred Sedgwick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997

ISBN

1-134-76360-3

1-280-31983-6

0-585-45346-2

0-203-43939-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

372.64

Soggetti

Poetry - Study and teaching (Elementary)

Poetry - Case studies - Study and teaching (Elementary)

Poetry - Authorship - Study and teaching (Elementary)

Reader-response criticism

Learning, Psychology of

Theory & Practice of Education

Education

Social Sciences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Introduction: Most precious words; 2 I see me in her eye': Learning about the body; 3 In the silences': Learning more about living; Two central issues: clichés and drafting; 4 Introduction: A fresh look at the world; 5 Martians, Riddles and Snapshots; 6 The dragging of dead thrushes': Writing about nature; A note on writing about the human-made environment; 7 Introduction: Me and the rest of the world; 8 Death and other obsessions; 9 The stamping rocks and the squeaking birds': Fantasy

10 Where do you come from?': The humanities11 You are the beautiful snow that falls in Nebraska'; 12 Children responding to poems; Appendices; References; Index



Sommario/riassunto

This book aims to help all those involved with children and their learning through poem-writing. The book begins with an introduction outling the importance of poetry. It discusses poetry in terms of children's learning and the imagination.