Count to 5 Say I'm Alive (Poetry 4 Kids) ... 110 Minutes. Click to preview
For: Years 3 to 8
Format: DVDs Book
Type: Linked DVD Video and Handbook
Price: NZ - $96.75, Aus - $96.75, International - Not Available
With Count to 5 you get two DVDs and a matching handbook which help introduce children to the beauty, rhythm and sheer joy of poetry. The Workshop DVD shows teacher tried and proven ways of winning classroom interest in poetry. There is humor and pathos from sixteen leading poets including Michael Rosen, Roger McGough, Colin McNaughton and Judith Nicholls.
Classic poems by Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shakespeare and Rabindranath Tagore are performed enthusiastically by children.
The Poetry DVD shows sixteen leading poets reading and performing their poetry and dozens of children - solo and in groups - reading their own poems, acting playground rhymes and performing classic poetry.
The DVD has an on-screen index so you can quickly locate any of the 59 poems quickly AND find the text in the handbook, plus associated teaching suggestions. The DVD can be used as entertainment, allowing children to enjoy a range of poetry, or by using the index you can concentrate on one poem and use it to encourage writing or performing.
The Workshops video contains 4 poet/teachers: Michael Rosen, Judith Nicholls, Yakety Yak and Lemn Sissay working in the classroom stimulating children to write and perform poetry. Each poet/teacher works in a different way and teachers will find ideas they can adapt to their own style and needs. The purpose of this DVD is to give teachers ideas for teaching poetry themselves, and how to win and keep the interest of students.
The Words handbook includes all the text of all the poems and a video index. This is a professional textbook whose 120 pages contain: all the poems referred to and quoted in the DVDs; teaching suggestions for each one; and pages of other hints and tips for teachers. It contains hard-won experience from teachers and poets used to taking the classroom floor in front of students with widely varying interest-levels in poetry.
DVDs Produced by Team Video Productions. Handbook edited by Michael Rosen.