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World Writing 2 (age 9-11)

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"World Writing 2 would be an excellent resource purely as a stimulus for writing but it offers much more. It is incredibly easy to use, the video and audio clips add value to what is a very well presented package."

TEACHER'S REVIEW, PRIMARY CHOICE

 

 

 

Children can see the world and read its literature with these collections of writing from around the world.

  • Offers a wide range of high-quality, engaging texts to capture children's interest.
  • Explores literature from Africa, Mexico and Ireland
  • Includes stories and poems by a range of writers including Chinua Achebe, W B Yeats, Artemis Fowl and Malachy Doyle.
  • Each piece of literature is read aloud with the accent from the relevant region to provide context and enhance understanding.
  • Includes interviews with authors, high-quality video and audio clips, music, pictures and texts to show children what life is like in each of the regions and provide opportunities for cross-curricular work.
  • All content is designed to develop children's speaking, listening, reading and writing skills, and ties into the renewed Primary Framework for literacy.

Contents:

1. Africa: This unit contains three poems and three prose pieces from Africa:

Introduction to Africa: settings and sounds

  • Nigeria
  • Senegal

African Poetry

  • Poem 1: My House by Annette Mbaye D'Erneville (Senegal)
  • The importance of home in knowing who you are
  • Person and tense
  • Wetlands
  • Poem 2: The Wheel Around the World Traditional (Mozambique)
  • Poem 3: Minstrel's Song The Mende (Sierra Leone)
  • Similes and metaphors
  • Writer's room

African Prose

  • Drylands
  • Achol and her Wild Mother Traditional Dinka tale (Mozambique)
  • Character's personalities
  • Rules for a fair society
  • The Other Side of Truth by Beverly Naidoo
  • Repetition
  • Whose footprints? A myth from Ghana
  • Simple and complex sentences
  • Writer's room

 

2. Central and South America: This unit contains three poems and three prose pieces from Central and South America:

Introduction to Central and South America: settings and stories

  • The mystery of the Mayan's disappearance
  • The Mayans: lost cities and palaces
  • Mexico City
  • Everyday life in a Mexican village

Poetry

  • The Moon is Yours by Jaime Sabines
  • The Cedar Chest by Rosario Castellanos
  • Alliteration
  • Pressures on the rainforest
  • The People in Poverty by Gloria Guevara
  • Writer's room

Prose

  • The Aztecs and their god
  • How Music was Fetched out of Heaven an Aztec myth
  • Amazon rainforest
  • Bufeo Colorado by Saviour Pirotta
  • Choice of language
  • Saviour Pirotta
  • Saviour Pirotta: Folk tales and myths
  • The Pilgrim Dogs by Quetzalcoatl Vizuel
  • Writer's room

 

3. Ireland: This unit contains three poems and three prose pieces from Ireland:

Introduction to Ireland: settings and stories

  • The Mountains of Mourne

Irish poems

  • This River Morning by Berlie Doherty
  • The Lake Isle: Inspiration for writing
  • The Lake of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats
  • Up on the Roof by Matthew Sweeney
  • Writer's room

Irish prose

  • Fingal's Cave
  • The Harp of Dagda by Geraldine McCaughrean
  • Features of a myth
  • Landscape: shaping beliefs and stories
  • The Soul Cages by Malachy Doyle
  • Eoin Colfer
  • Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
  • Character descriptions
  • Writer's room

 

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