Writing Etheree Poems Across the Curriculum

Abstract

Many teachers make reading and writing poetry an important part of the school day. They use different instructional strategies that invite students to write poetry in meaningful, engaging, and creative ways. This article describes an instructional strategy that invites students to write etheree poetry across the curriculum. It discusses benefits of using poetry in content area literacy and provides background on etheree poetry. Next, it describes an instructional lesson using etheree poetry and shares samples of poetry that resulted from the lesson. It ends with reflections and implications.