Working as a group, the children create their poems and perform excerpts at the end of the film. This short film is from the BBC series, Get Creative. Bring into class a selection of greetings ...

Allow time for mixed pairs or groups of children to text mark their own copy of the poem with ideas about what some of the word classes or meanings ... for teaching English at primary school.

Walter started reading poetry in eighth grade English class and started writing his own poems in high school. For 40 years, Walter has written a poem each month, based on a photograph ...