Importance of Subject

Knowledge/Perception of
Poetry

Pupil orientation can be influenced by classroom practice. Can sometimes be in conflict at

interpersonal and intergroup level teachers and peers!
Experience bring the ability to talk about, record and recall.
Due to teachers possible lack of positive experience of poems, they may themselves be killing
poetry rather than instilling a love of poetry to their pupils.
Newkirk (1984) teachers may only teach texts they have mastered in contrast, to how poetry
should be taught as most literacy instruction should foster myths a journey to uncover meaning.
Teachers rereading qualitatively different from pupils initial reading!
Teachers play a crucial role in inspiring young people to enjoy poetry and the way they approach
poems. They can help to stimulate a lifelong passion for the genre/rejection.
Dymoke (2009) the idea poetry is a difficult medium can lead potential readers to reject its
advances.
Booktrust (2010) the older pupils get the more likely they are to see poetry as an elite form of
art.
Motion (2000) teachers need to get over the mental block poetry Is difficult to teach, crucial if
their pupils see poetry as something accessible and enjoyable and can read on their own.
More the brain is stimulated, the more it develops the potential to make connections (Greenfield,
2002)