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Letter Poem Creator
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| Grades | 3 – 12 |
| Interactive Type | Writing Poetry |
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| URL | http://www.readwritethink.org /files/resources/interactives /letter_poem/ |
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ABOUT THIS INTERACTIVE |
Letter poems are a particularly apt medium for exploring a defining characteristic of poetry-line breaks. As students work to transform narrative-style letters (shown at left) into poetic format, they are encouraged to think carefully about where to end each line. Using the Letter Poem Creator, students engage with the medium of letters and experiment with writing them as poems, with attention to why the lines are broken, where they are broken, and how line breaks affect rhythm, sound, meaning, and appearance.
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