Games, Ideas and Activities for Primary Poetry is the resource you need to help create enjoyable poetry lessons for both you and your learners. As well as providing a base of 150 ready-made lesson activities to use in your classroom, Virginia Bower helps develop your knowledge of different poetic forms, the range of poetry available and how best to use this poetry in your teaching.

This book is part of a book series called Classroom Gems .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 368 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Pearson Education Limited .

This book has the following chapters:

Chapter 1 - Narrative poetry
Chapter 2 - Poetry to perform

Chapter 3 - Humorous poetry and word play
Chapter 4 - Poetry for all occasions

Chapter 5 - Senses and feelings

Chapter 6 - Poetic forms

Chapter 7 - Poetry all around us

Chapter 8 - Ideas to promote talk in the classroom
Chapter 9 - Ideas to promote reading in the classroom
Chapter 10 - Ideas to promote writing