Cambridge poetry workshop, keystage 3 Book

A series of teaching anthologies specially devised to take full account of the requirements of the National Curriculum guidelines, to stimulate the personal creative response of students, and to support teachers for whom the teaching of poetry is not second nature. Written in the light of many years' classroom practice, the Cambridge Poetry Workshop series aims to liberate poetry-teaching from approaches that leave students daunted, mystified, or simply bored stiff. The poetry, critical apparatus, discussion framework and assignments are presented in teaching units which provide a lessons' work (with the possibility of further work arising). Activities around the poems are designed to foster and develop creativity and, through an appeal to personal experience, help students engage with the ideas, sensations and experiences at the heart of the poems.