{"product_id":"teaching-reading-shakespeare-hardback","title":"Teaching Reading Shakespeare - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTeaching Reading Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e is warmly and clearly communicated, and gives ownership of ideas and activities to teachers by open and explicit discussion. John Haddon creates a strong sense of community with teachers, raising many significant and difficult issues, and performing a vital and timely service in doing so. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e- Simon Thomson, Globe Education, Shakespeare’s Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Haddon offers creative, systematic and challenging approaches which don’t bypass the text but engage children with it. He analyses difficulty rather than ignoring it, marrying his own academic understanding with real sensitivity to the pupils’ reactions, and providing practical solutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cem\u003eTrevor Wright, Senior Lecturer in Secondary English, University of Worcester, and author of 'How to be a Brilliant English Teacher', also by Routledge.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTeaching Reading Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e is for all training and practising secondary teachers who want to help their classes overcome the very real difficulties they experience when they have to ‘do’ Shakespeare. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProviding a practical and critical discussion of the ways in which Shakespeare’s plays present problems to the young reader, the book considers how these difficulties might be overcome. It provides guidance on:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003econfronting language difficulties, including ‘old words’, meaning, grammar, rhetoric and allusion; \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ereading the plays as scripts for performance at Key Stage 3 and beyond; \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eusing conversation analysis in helping to read and teach Shakespeare; \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ereading the plays in contextual, interpretive and linguistic frameworks required by examinations at GCSE and A Level. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once practical and principled, analytical and anecdotal, drawing on a wide range of critical reading and many examples of classroom encounters between Shakespeare and young readers, \u003cem\u003eTeaching Reading Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e encourages teachers to develop a more informed, reflective and exploratory approach to Shakespeare in schools.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45548302401774,"sku":"9780415479073","price":241.4,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780415479073.jpg?v=1720262627","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/teaching-reading-shakespeare-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}