How can I make teaching poetry fun and interesting for primary school pupils?

Question by Steve: How can I make teaching poetry fun and interesting for primary school pupils?

Use of games, online resources, in-class activities. No long writing please. Teaching syllables, types of rhyming, types of poetry and some children's poets.




Best answer:

Answer by Mab
When I was in elementary school like six years ago they used m&m's for everything. You learn to describe it, learn new words with it etc, and at the end of the learning process you got to eat the m&m.

Start simple, give them a coupel M&M's--explain simply what a poem is, have them write a poem about their m&m and go go from there.

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