Drafting and Assessing Poetry offers a range of teaching strategies for developing students' poetry writing skills, and guidance about assessment approaches. Critical commentaries combine with illustrations of successful classroom practice to consider this essential but under-explored aspect of English teaching. Based on theory but with a practical dimension, the book engages readers in current critical debates about poetry teaching and its place in an assessment- driven curriculum. Contents: The Place of Poetry in the National Curriculum \ Drafting Poetry \ Using Poet's Drafts \ Poetry and ICT \ The Visiting Poet and Poetry Workshops \ Assessing Poetry \ The Context: Forty Years of Poetry Teaching.