Preface 1. Lists 2. Rhymes 3. Poems without rhymes 4. Haiku and related forms 5. Short Poems 6. Free verse and Chinese poems 7. Imagery and sound 8. Poems from stories 9. Riddles and nonsense 10. Poems with voices 11. Praise poems and prayers 12. Narrative poems 13. Poems from history and other places

Poetry - from reading to writing covers the process of writing a poem with pupils in key stage two, from reading examples right through to writing their own piece.

Robert Hull's four published collections of verse include two for children, Stargrazer (Hodder), shortlisted for the Signal prize, and Everest and Chips (OUP), shortlisted for the CLPE prize. He is the author of two much-praised books on teaching, Behind the Poem (Routledge) and The Language Gap (Methuen). He has 30 years' experience of working in schools as a teacher and running workshops, and has published numerous anthologies of poetry and prose for children.