Meanings
- uncountablePoetry created by taking words or phrases from other sources and making changes in spacing or line breaks, or adding or deleting text to impart new meaning.
You may have already used Owl Moon (Yolen), Snow Comes to the Farm (Tripp), The Whales' Song (Sheldon), or The Seashore Book (Zolotow) for found poetry. Mentor texts work well here because students are already familiar with [them].
2007, Lynne R. Dorfman, Rose Cappelli, Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6, Stenhouse Publishers, →ISBN, page 1931 more example
Brett Dillingham, author and storyteller, advocates integrating content reading, note taking, poetry writing, and performance in the following found-poetry activity (Workshop, 1998). 1. Read examples of found poetry and explore with students […]
2004, Nile Stanley, Creating Readers with Poetry, Maupin House Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 89
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