Archive for May, 2010

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    Good Luck with Salt Kids

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Greetings to everyone from Mandy Coe

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    John Siddique – Making It Up

    Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments
    Making It Up Fold yourself the mind you want. Make a paper hat and wear it on your head. Hold it tight when the wind blows. Paint yourself the heart you desire. Pin it on your jumper, be proud of your colours. Pin it fast...

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    Kids’ Stuff by Angela Topping

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Kids’ Stuff Hanging round parks for a go on the swings your palms smelling of metal off the roundabout The iron grip of the slide as you launch yourself It’s kids’ stuff but I still like it. Dipping your fingers in sherbet and licking Sticking...

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    Creative Writing in Schools: a discussion between Rupert Loydell and Mike Ferguson

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | 1 Comment
    This discussion was first published in 2004 in Writing in Education magazine. It arose from the experience of running writing workshops in schools over many years and the wide range of issues uncovered by them. Rupert Loydell is now a Senior Lecturer in English with...

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    Off Road to Everywhere

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | 1 Comment
    Philip Gross’s classics of poetry for children, Manifold Manor, The All-Nite Café and Scratch City, set a benchmark in the 1990s for opening doors to rich worlds of language and imagination. Off Road To Everywhere takes the challenge into a new century. These poems grow...

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    Make a Book with Angela Topping

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | No Comments
    A gorgeous project anyone can do and it even makes great gifts.

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    Postcard Workshop: In a Rainbow World

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | 2 Comments
    POSTCARD WORKSHOP: IN RAINBOW WORLD By Rupert Loydell Introduction This workshop focuses attention on the process of shaping and editing a poem. Like many of the workshops I use it initially takes the form of a word game. The workshop needs two sessions for this...

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    Robert Hull was invited by Salt Kids to talk about his latest book

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | 1 Comment
    Poetry — From Reading to Writing A Classroom Guide for Ages 7-11 By Robert Hull Price: £16.99 ISBN: 978-0-415-55408-4 Publish Date: 12th November 2009 Imprint: Routledge Pages: 104 pages The background to my recent book Poetry, from Reading to Writing (Routledge / Fulton 2009) is simply, on...

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    Wes Magee – Rick’s Revolting Rumours

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | 1 Comment

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    “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats

    Posted on May 3, 2010 | No Comments
    Ode to a Nightingale John Keats 1. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: ’Tis not through envy of thy...

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