Finding Your Feet with Fiction & Poetry Set

Finding Your Feet with Fiction & Poetry Set by Rob Cottrell

This two-book series contains lots of bright ideas and worksheets to support middle to senior school students in their reading, understanding and enjoyment of poetry, novels and stories.

The Fiction book is divided into 8 sections (Reading Skills, Authors and Illustrators, Setting, Character, Plots and Events, Genre, Film Versions and Book Reviewing) each focusing on a feature of reading or fiction.

The Poetry book contains loads of bright ideas and worksheets to support middle to senior school students in their reading, understanding and enjoyment of poems. It is divided into 5 sections (Poems, Rhythm, Rhyme, Figurative Language, and View Points), each focusing on a feature of poetry.

All the sections in each book are prefaced by teacher notes and contain a wide range of purposeful, engaging and high interest reading-related activities for students.

About the Author:

Rob Cottrell taught in the UK for five years before moving to New Zealand. Rob has a maths and computer science degree from the University of Birmingham and now works in the ICT area of a large urban primary school. Outside of teaching he travels and gets into the outdoors as much as he can!

[CODE: UF-673]

[Extent: 2 Photocopiable Books]

[Author: Rob Cottrell]

[Age Suitability: 10-12+]

[Published: 2009]