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Cumming, Rachel – Literacy, 2007
This article begins by identifying that children have a spontaneous predilection for playing with language, engaging in poetic discourse even before their first poetry lesson. Although children's language play is relatively unresearched in the classroom, in a case study of two groups of pupils aged between 10 and 11, it was observed that children…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Poetry, Play, Language Acquisition