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  2. Poetry from Daily Life: Stumped for ideas? Start your poem ...

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    He has three new titles due out this fall: "Wild Brunch, Poems About How Animals Eat"; "A Tree is a Community"; and "The fluency development lesson: Closing the reading gap."

  3. Poetry analysis - Wikipedia

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    The characteristics of such poems include (but are not limited to) a strong narrative, regular poetic meter, simple content and simple form. At the same time, many poems that read well aloud have none of the characteristics exhibited by T. S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi", for example. Poems that read aloud well include: "The Frog", by Jean Dao

  4. Reading - Wikipedia

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    Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of symbols, often specifically those of a written language, by means of sight or touch. [1] [2] [3] [4]For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling), alphabetics, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and motivation.

  5. Poetry from Daily Life: Sometimes, the words come uninvited ...

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    These feet, once so quick. in a game of tag, so graceful. sporting high heels. at the dance, ∘. Weary now, ungainly appendages, painful reminders. that time matters.

  6. The Pet Goat - Wikipedia

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    "The Pet Goat" (often erroneously called "My Pet Goat") is a grade-school-level reading exercise composed by American educationalist Siegfried "Zig" Engelmann and Elaine C. Bruner. It get attention for being read by US President George W. Bush with a class of second-graders on the morning of September 11, 2001.

  7. Reader-response criticism - Wikipedia

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    Two Girls Reading by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and their experience of a literary work, in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author, content, or form of the work.

  8. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1] [2] [3] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet.

  9. ABC of Reading - Wikipedia

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    ABC of Reading [1] is a book by the 20th-century Imagist poet Ezra Pound published in 1934. In it, Pound sets out an approach by which one may come to appreciate and understand literature (focusing primarily on poetry). Despite its title the text can be considered as a guide to writing poetry.