A Guide for Using Poetry in the Classroom

This guide gives you the perfect rationale for using poetry in the classroom, and gives suggestions as to how to approach the teaching of poetry, In addition it explains the value of using poetry with EAL children to develop comprehension skills without the need for them to read whole extracts of text.
It also provides a clear methodology for eliciting children’s responses in a creative and personal way. This resource is evidence based and is written to support you as English lead or as a teacher looking to improve the provision of poetry in the classroom. To support suggested teaching methods, there is a selection of meta-cognition frames to encourage thinking about how we think!