Writing and Performance Poetry - Live Lessons Extra

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Advice, discussion and primary poetry teaching resources from our panel:

• Joseph Coelho - Award-winning performance poet, author and National Poetry Day ambassador

• Charlotte Hacking - Learning Programme Leader at the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education

• Lee Parkinson - Teacher and blogger with a passion for using technology to enhance learning across the curriculum

Making poetry engaging for children

The panel discuss current thinking around teaching poetry in primary schools and its importance within the curriculum.

Challenges in teaching poetry

Our expert panel discusses the challenges faced by primary teachers when it comes to teaching poetry.

Tips and recommendations

Our expert panel give their top tips and recommendations to help engage your primary children in poetry in and out of the classroom.

Reflecting on the Live Lesson

Our teacher panel discusses the Live Lesson and how you can keep the learning going in your classroom.

External links

• National Poetry Day website - This contains a wealth of resources for sharing on National Poetry Day and beyond

• CLPE’s poetryline website - Where you’ll find resources such as videos of a range and breadth of poets performing poetry and talking about how they write, teaching notes, booklists and subject knowledge around poetic forms and devices

• CLiPPA Award school shadowing scheme - The CLiPPA is the only national award for published children’s poetry. Each year schools are invited to shadow the award and submit a video of a performance of a poem from one of the shortlisted collections. The chosen winners get to perform their poem on stage at the National Theatre as part of the award ceremony

• Children’s poetry archive - This holds a number of recordings of a wide range of poets performing poetry

• Poetry Roundabout - This was set up by poet Liz Brownlee to share reviews of poetry books, interviews with children’s poets and videos of poets performing poetry

• The Poetry Zone - This was set up by poet Roger Stevens to publish poems by children and young people and also contains videos of poet performances, book reviews and interviews with children’s poets

• The Poetry Foundation children’s section - This contains articles about children’s poetry, examples of children’s poetry, book picks and videos