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It's an excellent and necessary means of self-expression.
Poetry necessitates scratching below the surface, plumbing
emotions students are often afraid to share with their
peers. Students will often reveal long-hidden troubles
they'd be otherwise reluctant to divulge through poetry.
Teachers feel they have a much deeper and fuller understanding
of their students after reading their students' poems.
We encourage children at AWS to express themselves through
poetry.
Teachers frequently gives feedback that they have a
much deeper and fuller understanding of their students
after reading their students' poems. I've noticed a
closer sense of community forming in a classroom where
students regularly share their own poetry. Poetry is
a much freer form than prose writing. Even students
with limited language skills can excel at poetry. It’s
been seen that second- and third- graders who could
barely write a sentence later compose awesome poems.
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