Teaching Poetry for Pleasure and Purpose

This book is designed to encourage and upskill teachers to introduce and explore poetry in the classroom with their students. Poetry has many proven benefits for learning outcomes and can help significantly in students' literacy journey. Dr Murphy's book is packed full of poem-driven activities and tips for engaging students with poetry.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Why poetry?
• Chapter 2 Poetry in the Foundation year
• Chapter 3 Poetry in Year 1
• Chapter 4 Poetry in Year 2
• Chapter 5 Poetry in Year 3
• Chapter 6 Poetry in Year 4
• Chapter 7 Poetry in Year 5
• Chapter 8 Poetry in Year 6
• Chapter 9 Resources