4 Summary

In this unit, you have done an audit of your knowledge of children’s literature, and considered the features of good-quality children’s stories. You have also thought about including more opportunities for reciting poetry and telling stories in your lessons. When you regularly include activities like these in your teaching, your students will come to expect and enjoy them, and this will inspire them to read stories and poems by themselves, thereby contributing to their literacy development.

3 Using poems and stories in the classroom