Poet Michael Rosen had the idea for Perform-a-Poem while he was the fifth Children’s Laureate (2007-9).
He wanted to create a website where young people could upload videos of their performances of poems and browse other children’s poetry performance videos, as a fun way to help children engage with poetry in the classroom.
Perform-a-Poem is part of Michael’s Poetry-Friendly Classroom website, which offers teachers video tips, activity sheets, links and other resources to help make their classrooms poetry-friendly.
Perform-a-Poem was developed by BookTrust in association with Michael Rosen and the London Grid for Learning as a legacy of Michael Rosen’s time as Children’s Laureate 2007-2009. The site is hosted by the London Grid for Learning.
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