Poetry is usually short, and the rhythm and rhyme embedded in poetry for children make poems easy to learn to read ... to be ...

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The poet Roger McGough introduces and reads some of his best-known poems for children: The writer of this ... verb in the poem is always 'give'. First day at school Explores how strange everything ...