On the other hand, I’m glad that both of us shared the experience of changing our minds about poetry after Raquel’s lesson. Actually I strongly agree with you, because as you mentioned, now I’m also able to positively appreciate the huge potential that poetry can have in Primary lessons.
I really liked what you pointed out, that part of its potential is due to the fact that poetry allows teachers to work through a cross-curricular methodology. In addition, other reasons that can be consider good ones are those shared by Miguel on his entry, who explained that it can be treated as a funny and motivating tool for pupils, as well as for the reason that poems can develop pupils’ creativity and imagination.

Finally I would like to tell you that I found fantastic the experience you carried out with your pupils. They don’t know how lucky they are for having you as their teacher. I consider it was a wonderful idea to give them the chance of creating their own poems (real poetess), with a great aim: to learn difficult contents in a different and attractive way.

P.D: One tip that I gathered from our classmate entry, which could be useful for you in case you want to repeat that experience (which I think it would be terrific) is based on adding dramatization to poetry. I didn’t think about it before the lesson with Raquel, and based on my experience, I think it is something really helpful to interiorise and remember poems.

Thanks a million for your post