Click here to download a free poetry ebook for your primary class and get your children performing! Poetry In The New Curriculum- Ian Bland Children’s Poet and Performer Before the new curriculum poetry it seems had played
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Click here to download a free poetry ebook for your primary class and get your children performing! Come Quick! There’s a Dragon In The Garden! Some time ago I posted a piece on my blog about poems
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Click here to download a free poetry ebook for your primary class and get your children performing! Learning and reciting poems has become a central part of literacy in the new curriculum. It is now expected that
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Click here to download a free poetry ebook for your primary class and get your children performing! As a professional children’s poet I have worked with literally thousands of schools, libraries and festivals over the last fourteen
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Click here to download a free poetry ebook for your primary class and get your children performing! Does it have to rhyme? How many times do we hear children ask this question? Young writers can become a
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Click here to download a free poetry ebook for your primary class and get your children performing! Kennings are a form of poetry invented by Norsemen/ Vikings hundreds of years ago. They are a simple compound phrase
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Click here to download a free poetry ebook for your primary class and get your children performing! Next time you are planning a unit of poetry for your class make sure that you set some time aside
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Click here to download a free poetry ebook for your primary class and get your children performing! If you haven’t come across them before calligrams are a great and simple way to get children thinking about being
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