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Peer reviewedApol, Laura; Harris, Jodi – Language Arts, 1999
Discusses the efforts of a fifth-grade teacher and a visiting poet to rekindle students' sense of poetic passion and pleasure. Describes how the authors introduced students to poems for two voices (using P. Fleischman's "Joyful Noise"). The poetry unit culminated in a project in which students read and performed Fleischman's poems, then wrote and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Dramatics, Grade 5
