This National Poetry Day Live Lesson for KS2/2nd Level pupils explores the theme of 'change' and includes reading, performance and critical analysis of similes and metaphors. The programme, presented ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Poetry lessons. Since 1996, Americans have celebrated National Poetry Month throughout the month of April. Reading, writing, and ...

These lesson plans aim to help students, aged 7 to 19, explore the choices that poets make and experiment with their own. Download: Poetry - resource sheet 2 street scene illustration (241.9 KB PDF) ...

I remember the best poetry lesson I ever had as though it was yesterday; it was at Low Valley Junior School in Darfield, near Barnsley, on a freezing cold morning in 1965. The date is significant ...

To introduce students to close reading poetry and using writing to understand reading; to prepare them to write a 4-6 page essay on a single poem Students have read selected poems and the chapter on ...

This set of shorter video clips is taken from the Live Lesson programme and can be used to teach individual topics. If you enjoyed these clips, why not catch up with this Live Lesson and learn more ...