Shakespeare and the Young Writer

Presents accounts of primary school children enountering Shakespeare's work for the first time. Fred Sedgwick shows how careful selection of scenes, lines and images from the plays and sonnets - in their original language - can be used to great effect as the starting point for children's writing. Examples of children's work show just how powerful the stimulus can be. The book should be of value to all teachers looking for new ideas to improve their practice in teaching literacy.