the poetry toolkit
A collection of ideas and resources to help enhance your poetry provision.
the poetry toolkit
A collection of ideas and resources to help enhance your poetry provision.
In 2020, myself and two colleagues embarked on developing our poetry curriculum within our English provision.
And, it all begun with asking our teachers the question: 'Are you confident at teaching poetry?' More than 75% of our teachers responded no.
So, with that statistic in mind and the feeling that our current approach to teaching poetry was some-what outdated, the poetry project begun, that transformed the 'what' and 'how' we taught poetry in our school.
THE WHY
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THE WHAT
An overview of poetry forms, poems and poets for Years 1 to 6
THE HOW
A framework to guide teachers in their own planning of a poetry unit.
The go-to for more poems