Product reviews for Teaching Poetry in the Primary Classroom

Gervase has clearly articulated an innovative framework which gives primary teachers a poetry resource to enhance the creative environment. Children bathed in language will be enriched by the ideas and opportunities the resource offers.

The impact on learning accessed by the breadth of poetry held in this anthology and will engage all learners by offering them a plethora of starting points and framework for writing.

The diverse range of poetry collected and explained, provides support, and enhances the work of teachers and pupils by outlining the wealth of ideas available to them in a practical and accessible format. Gervase shares in the text his love of language and shows how poetry can be a vehicle for the development of skills and knowledge.

This book will provide an essential tool for primary teachers to enable them to achieve their aim with lots of ideas, engaging poems, to make you laugh and make you cry.

It is a readable, easily accessible text to support the teaching of poetry in the primary classroom.