Week 8 Exploring and exploiting stories/poetry in the primary ESL

classroom

Why?

• teaching the skills

– listening, speaking, reading and writing.

• skills students use to assign meaning

• a catalyst in developing language skills.

• effective language teaching resource

• pick up language patterns

• the use of words as poems often convey their messages through unusual and interesting ways.

How• allow the student to 'engage' with the poem

personally.

• focus on the content or style of the poem

• encourage the students' explorations of their own experiences in relation to the poem taught