ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a narrative intervention programme to enhance the understanding and facilitating the expression of narratives or stories in students with varied speech, language and communication needs in the later primary years and in secondary schools. It details the seventeenth session of the programme. This session explores the students the features of poetry and how it differs from the literature that have already been discussing, that is, a prose. Prose is the name given for the stories that have been talking about thus far in this programme, the stories of books, films and television which can be fiction or non-fiction. Both prose and poetry are expressions, either spoken or written. Poetry is usually written in a more structured way and has a specific rhythm, like a song, and a beat like a drum. Rhythm, a continuous and reoccurring beat, is a feature of all poems. Prose is the language of everyday and ordinary speech.
