Poets Writing in a Variety of Forms

Part of the "Pelican Big Books" series, this book has a teaching focus on all the requisite forms of poetry, including riddle, tanka, haiku, cinquain, kenning and shape poems.

This series has been specifically written for the shared reading part of the literacy hour and supports the genre requirements of the National Literacy Strategy. Teacher's notes are included at the back of each Big Book, providing ideas for Text, Sentence and Word level activities.

Smaller versions of the Big Books allow for follow-up work in groups and teacher's notes provide ideas for group work.