Every child should be able to enjoy the fun of reading and writing poetry. This inspirational book gets them going. Teaching children to write great poetry is a gift of a book - written by a teacher, with many successful years of teaching children to enjoy writing poetry - for teachers. It's packed with great ideas to get their creative juices flowing. Metaphors, similes, alliteration, rhymes and onomatopoeia - they're all there - proving there's nothing like poetry for inspiring a love of literacy. From the joyful daftness of nonsense poems and nursery rhymes to the challenge of narrative poems and cautionary tales, it smoothes the way, with lesson plans, support sheets and a starburst of creative ideas. Just watch their enthusiastic response to its well-structured fun. Acrostics, list poems, kennings, enjambment and shape poems are all included with suggestions of topics which start with the interest of the child. Pupils' confidence will grow with their success, as they respond enthusiastically to the hilarity of limericks and clerihews, and grasp the skill of writing succinctly to create haikus and cinquains. Each chapter gives examples of the type of poem and a plan to guide pupils to recognize its characteristics and brainstorm ideas to create a class poem. This practice gives children the confidence to plan and create their own poetry. To empower your less able poets, there are carefully planned writing frames to encourage them to succeed. Poetry writing also brings about improvement in creative writing. This book guides teachers to teach the skills of choosing interesting vocabulary, creating their own similes and metaphors. This will spill over into their story writing. Children will learn to use their senses to enhance their descriptions and creating vivid pictures in the readers minds. Watch the children s enthusiasm for surfing the net to find the origins of nursery rhymes, creating imaginative haikus and cinquains for their own Christmas cards, and miming the actions of their cautionary tales for their class assembly.
Julie Teston was in a hurry to join her extended family for a relaxing weekend at their home at River's Bend. Looking for a temporary escape from her hectic life, she knew she would find good food, good company, and mental and emotional rest there. But she didn't know she would also find fear, suspicion, and...murder. After a record period of heavy rain, the river exceeded flood stage and thirteen people are stranded together at River's Bend. No one expected that one of them would be murdered. Julie is a young housewife with courage, grit, and lots of curiosity. Join her as she figures out what happened and "whodunit". RIVER'S BEND is a riveting mystery novella. It is Hazel Davis Megahee's second book.
Inspire students to enjoy literature while helping them to prepare effectively for the CSEC® examination; ensure coverage of all prescribed poems for the revised CSEC® English A and English B syllabuses with an anthology that has been compiled with the approval of the Caribbean Examinations Council by Editors who have served as CSEC® English panel members.- Stimulate an interest in and enjoyment of literature with a wide range of themes and subjects, a balance of well-known texts from the past and more recent works, as well as stories from the Caribbean and the rest of the world.- Support understanding with notes on each text and questions to provoke discussion, and a useful checklist to help with literary analysis.- Consolidate learning with practical guidance on how to tackle examination questions including examples of model answers for reference.
Childhood friends. . . Adult adversariesRaised in a carnival until she is thirteen and then abandoned on the doorstep of her fundamentalist Christian grandparents, Sara Kramer has a loathing for scams. When former best friend Garth comes to town as a psychic healer, Sara vows to shut his business down if she detects even a whiff of swindle. She has barely begun her investigation when she becomes the target of a stalker. Then a rock with a note attached crashed through her living room window. The message: Mind your own business Garth says he is not responsible and offers his help. Can he be trusted, or is he behind the threats?
The adventures of Algernon is a story about a little mouse and his friends who live in the Australian Bush. The characters in this story are all introduced to the reader, some before the story, some after, and with each introduction the character gives a little bit of information on their particular species. From Algernon, to Fergus the frog, Betty the butterfly, Benny the bandicoot, and others, the reader will be enchanted by their sharing their little bits of information. As well as an entertaining book, the Adventures of Algernon is also a learning process of the wonderful animals that inhabit the Australian Bush land.
Return to Summerchester, takes us back to the idyllic Seaside Market Town of Summerchester, introduced to us through Hazel Elizabeth Allen's Award Winning Novel, Summerchester Secrets and her short story Summerchester Regrets. Top chef Jack English walks away from his fashionable London restaurant and takes over the running of a small caf in his home town, in a bid to save his marriage. Olympic hopeful Charlotte Penfold is recovering from a serious injury with the help of her brother Toby and is recuperating at his cliff top apartment. Will life in the small seaside town of their childhood have the healing effects they both desire or will it bring them to breaking point as they Return to Summerchester?
