Teaching English through poems and short stories Why is it absent from so many efl classrooms?

Using Poetry in Writing Classes

• Read a variety of poems first
• Introduce different poetry forms as models
• Use poetry throughout the syllabus

Young Learners

Poems based on Books

• Choose a book and read it for the children
• Ask them to draw what they most like about it
• Write four lines to describe the drawing

https://youtu.be/TscMEckVde4

Young Learners

Mr Spider, Alan Maley

• Choose a poem and read it aloud for the children: https://youtu.be/m2Yr_jwCPhE
• Talk about where each line of the poem ends and how it creates rhyme, affects the meaning of the poem, and might even make the poem look a particular way.
• Read it again as a group.
• Select some words that rhyme. In this case, I selected: wall / fall; afraid / made;