‘...reading this book made me want to get back into the classroom and there can be no higher praise for a book about teaching.’
Pie Corbett, English educational trainer, writer, author, and poet; developer of Talk for Writing. From the Introduction.
How children engage with reading and writing is a hot topic. There is no ‘one size fits all’ best way. However, Rudolf Steiner/Waldorf education offers a holistic, active and creative approach based on the foundation of children’s rich spoken language development. The child discovers their own voice through movement, form drawing and storytelling. The magic of the alphabet is invoked in sound, story and image. Children tell stories and then write them down, which leads organically into reading.
This theory and practice-based Waldorf book gives the foundations for creative literacy and teaching children how to write and read in Classes 1 and 2, or UK Years 2 and 3. It explores how Steiner/ Waldorf pedagogy dovetails with mainstream primary approaches and specialist dyslexia-friendly methods.
Buy Writing to Reading the Steiner Waldorf Way: Foundations of Creative Literacy in Classes 1 and 2 by Abi Allanson from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect.