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Download full textSteiner, Ernst – Schulpraxis, 1967
This article discusses methods of teaching poetry and composition to German speaking elementary-school students in Switzerland. One effective device for treating poetry is enactment; children practice acting, declamation, pantomime, and narration while learning the poem. Another device is choral speaking with individually assigned roles, which…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Choral Speaking, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing
