Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Poetry lessons. Since 1996, Americans have celebrated National Poetry Month throughout the month of April. Reading, writing, and ...

In this week of the Presidential Inauguration, it must be said that poetry serves another function when deployed in public: it is classy, it adds tone and the aura of high-minded literary prestige.

This set of shorter video clips is taken from the Live Lesson programme and can be used to teach individual topics. If you enjoyed these clips, why not catch up with this Live Lesson and learn more ...

Michael Gove's new curriculum will see five-year-olds reciting poems by heart as part of the return to "traditional values". How that will pan out in real terms remains to be seen, but the power of ...

In some remote corners of East China's Luxi Plain and Southwest China's Hengduan Mountains, there are schools where teachers ...

I remember the best poetry lesson I ever had as though it was yesterday; it was at Low Valley Junior School in Darfield, near Barnsley, on a freezing cold morning in 1965. The date is significant ...

As National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’re closing up our poetry inbox. All month, we’ve invited people to send us their own original poems, responding to a prompt each week. We’ve heard from ...

Join us at 11:00 for a National Poetry Day 2022 Live Lesson! We want to hear how your pupils use their senses to describe their environment. Send ideas from your 7-11 year-olds to ...

As a young conservatory student in 1993, I was talking with a classmate. He told me that his teacher, a prominent trumpet player in the New York Philharmonic, would begin each weekly lesson by having ...