Poetry in practice
Get young children started on poetry with Doris Corti’s advice
Have you ever tried to occupy children, maybe on school holidays, or on a rainy day? What about getting them to write poems?
First of all get them to read some poems to you. If they are very young maybe you could read to them. Children want poems that relate to their worlds like family, pets, school, games, food, friends. They like a good story, strong rhymes and repetition.