Using Poetry to Decode and Enhance Comprehension Skills amongst Young Learners and Teenagers

Webinar date: December 2025
Presenter: Unnati Ved

This webinar discussed how teachers can introduce poetry to young learners and teenagers in an engaging way by making it fun and relevant. The webinar includes practical ideas and poetry resources to help enhance decoding and comprehensions skills amongst YLs and teenagers

This webinar explored:

• How to improve decoding and comprehension skills amongst young learners by giving practical ideas on analysing poetry
• Understanding of the rhyming scheme, pronunciation and spelling
• Rhetorical analysis of the poem using frameworks like SOAPSTONE and TPCASTT
• Ready-to-use activities on decoding, spellings, phonics and rhetorical frameworks for analysing poetry

About the presenter

Unnati is the founder of Eager Readers (www.eagerreaders.in), an after-school enrichment academy which offers programmes in reading, writing, speaking, drama and current affairs catering to young learners and teenagers since 2018 in Hyderabad, India. Eager Readers also conducts teacher training programmes for various schools across Hyderabad.

Unnati has completed her Trinity Dip Tesol from Oxford TEFL, Spain. She is part of the Academic Support Team at Trinity College London, India and has completed her LTCL in Communication Skills Trinity College London, ATCL in Speech and Drama, Trinity College London.