COD 2006 - P051

Poetry for Young Learners

Primary Teachers.

4 sessions, start: 15-Sep

Course detail

Year: 2006
Level: Primary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Beatriz Koessler MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 60.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 15 September 2006 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 29 September 2006 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
3 13 October 2006 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
4 27 October 2006 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Beatriz Koessler

Beatriz holds an MA in Literary Linguistics from the University of Nottingham, Uk. She was a lecturer in British Literature and Literature in the Language Class at both I.S.P. "J. V. González" and I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández" for more than thirty years. She has worked as a materials designer for the British Council and for Pearson Education. She's co-author of the Storyline series.
Primary Teachers.
- To dispel teachers’ fear of using poetry in class. - To acquaint teachers with traditional and current children’s poetry and songs. - To devise pre, while and post reading activities as from poems and songs. - To trigger teachers’ creative writing potential. - To establish connections between children’s poetry in English and in Spanish.
- Nursery rhymes and their equivalents in Spanish. - Lullabies. - Popular songs. - Humorous/absurd poetry. - Shape poetry, calligrams, diamond poetry. - Current poetry by Shel Silverstein, Roger McGough, John Foster, Brian Patten, Benjamin Zephaniah, Tony Mitton, Ian Mc Millan etc. Methodology: - Oral presentation. - Group work. - Creative writing activities.
Handouts with the poems will be available at ESSARP http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/home.do http://www.childrenspoetrybookshelf.co.uk/ http://www.poetryzone.ndirect.co.uk/content.htm http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/education/
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