Writing to Reading the Steiner Waldorf Way: Foundations of Creative Literacy in Classes 1 and 2

by Abi Allanson, Nicky Teensma, Pie Corbett

Overview

This is both a theoretical and practical book giving a complete pathway to teaching children how to write and read in Classes 1 and 2. This book provides teachers with appealing, easy-to-use plans and practical activities for immediate use. It also sets out fundamental principles of Steiner Waldorf pedagogy. It shows how this dovetails with the best of both mainstream primary approaches and specialist dyslexia-friendly methods. Teachers can use these principles to become confident in creating their own activities and resources. The book showcases the holistic, creative aspects of the Steiner Waldorf literacy approach. The teaching of writing before reading is prioritized so as to engage children's creativity in learning. Developing the child's own voice through writing and storytelling, to lead over into reading, is highly effective for motivation and success.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781912480319
Publisher:	Hawthorn Press
Publication date:	05/03/2020
Series:	Waldorf Education
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Abi Allanson is a teacher and consultant at Steiner Academy Frome specializing in literacy, differentiation, and teacher training. She was formerly a Learning Support and Class Teacher at the Rudolf Steiner School Kings Langley and St Paul's Steiner School, London SMT Lower School Lead and Class Teacher at Rudolf Steiner School Kings Langley, originally trained in Zeist and worked at the Johannes School in Tiel, Netherlands. A trained and qualified specialist dyslexia teacher, she taught a parallel SEN class (Tobias) at RSSKL for 5 years. Pie Corbett has written the foreword. He is an English educational trainer, writer, author and poet who has written well over two hundred books. He is now best known for creating the Talk for Writing approach to learning, which is widely used within UK primary schools