COD 2019 - P255

Developing Textual Intervention Activities with Poetry

Primary School teachers

1 sessions, start: 23-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2019
Level: Primary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. María Cecilia Pena Koessler MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 800.00
Non affiliate
ARS 800.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 23 April 2019 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

María Cecilia Pena Koessler

Graduate Teacher of English at Primary level and at Secondary level from I.E.S en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández." Postgraduate course in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at I.E.S en Lenguas Vivas "J.R. Fernández." MA in Literary Linguistics (University of Nottingham) and Medieval Studies Master's degree student (UBA). She teaches English Literature I and Children and YA 's Literature at I.S.P. J.V.González and I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "J.R. Fernández" Teacher Training Colleges and IGCSE and IB literature at secondary schools. She has participated in research projects on Intercultural Awareness and Border Thery. She has co-authored "Little Stars" pre-primary series and "Our Stories" primary series for Pearson and designed creative writing and literature materials for other series (Pearson and Macmillan).
Primary School teachers
- To read and analyse authentic material that is both appealing and easy-reading for a primary school age group
- To acquaint teachers with: calligrams, word clouds, shape poems, diamante poems, cinquain poems, acrostic poems, list poems, recipe poems, patterned poems, found poems, nonsense poems, collective poems, ballads among other types
-To introduce teachers to poets like Shel Silverstein, Paul Cookson, Ian McMillan, Tony Mitton, and Michael Rosen.
-To explore different points of entry for textual intervention and provide teachers with innovative creative writing strategies
Poetry is always difficult to tackle in Primary school due to the interests and language level of young students. It is the aim of this workshop to present teachers with a broad variety of appealing, humorous and/or shocking poems that will make poetry primary students´ favourite genre. Teachers will become familiarized with many distinguished contemporary children’s writers and their poetry and, as result, return to their classrooms with a wide variety of ready-to-use, hands-on activities to trigger off students’ creativity.
This session will be organized in terms of workshop for participants to enrich their understanding of the poems with contributions from the group. The latter will discuss points of entry, textual interventions and intertextual links which can be established with other verbal or visual texts.
McRae, John (1991). Literature with a small ‘l.’ Hong Kong: Macmillan.
Pope, Rob (1995). Textual Intervention: Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies. London: Routledge.
Kitchen, Ed David. (1991). Axed Between the Ears. Oxford: Heinemann.
Maley, Alan and Sandra Moulding (1985) Poem into Poem. Cambridge: C.U.P.
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