This is a fresh and practical approach to examining the way in which creative arts can be used in the classroom to enhance the learning of literacy in the primary school. It includes case studies and activities that clarify the role of creativity in the literacy teaching and advises how to help develop teaching skills. This is a must-have text for teachers who seek to make literacy learning interesting and fun.
Introduction: Creativity and literacy learning, Prue Goodwin; Chapter 1 The arts and literacy in primary classrooms, Liz Laycock; Chapter 2 The body of learning: the eight senses in literacy and creativity, Ann Whittle; Chapter 3 Discovering creativity on the playground, Elizabeth Grugeon, Louise Harding; Chapter 4 Literacy, creativity and popular culture, Margaret Perkins; Chapter 5 DARE to Quack, Rebecca Sinker, Victoria de Rijke; Chapter 6 Creativity and picture books, Judith Graham; Chapter 7 Creative readers at Key Stage 2, Catriona Nicholson; Chapter 8 What could happen next? The potential of the talking book, Ruth Wood; Chapter 9 Closely observed poems, Michael Lockwood; Chapter 10 Drama and writing: enlivening their prose, Teresa Grainger; Chapter 11 Dance and the literacy curriculum, Jill Newbald, Prue Goodwin; Chapter 12 The potential and possibilities of musical and physical literacies, Angela Pickard, Justine Earl; Chapter 13 Looking to be literate, Prue Goodwin; Chapter 14 Literacy, creativity and moving image media, Wendy Earle;
