What is it about?
Close reading poetry scaffolds readers and writers as they come to understand the form and function of poetry and transfer those skills to writing.
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Why is it important?
Close reading poetry helps early readers to develop a critical eye to understand poetic form and craft, and become poets in their own right.
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This page is a summary of: Introducing and Sustaining Close Reading and Writing Through Poetry, The Reading Teacher, July 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/trtr.1613.
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