This book offers everything a practitioner needs to build on and develop children's natural enthusiasm for words and sounds. Each poem in the book is a springboard to a variety of activities and games, and is accompanied by suggestions for follow-up activities and games to enhane the poems. These will encourage children's poetry making skills and stimulate learning activites and games directly linked to the goals for the Early Years Foundation Stage.

 

This book is part of a book series called Early Years Library .

This book is at the foundation stage (early years) of the key stage system. The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) covers children from birth to age 5 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 108 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Featherstone Education Ltd .

Keri Finlayson is a poet and literacy tutor from South Wales. Previously a teacher, she has taught children across the age range in England, Northern Ireland and South Wales and has postgraduate qualifications in early years literacy and language acquisition. She is particularly interested in literacy development in the early years and the capacity of poetry to enhance cognitive and social development, while being enormous fun.