found poetry
found poetry noun: poetry created by taking words or phrases from other sources and making changes in spacing or line breaks, or adding or deleting text to impart new meaning.
Noun
found poetry (uncountable)
- Poetry created by taking words or phrases from other sources and making changes in spacing or line breaks, or adding or deleting text to impart new meaning.
- Brett Dillingham, author and storyteller, advocates integrating content reading, note taking, poetry writing, and performance in the following found-poetry activity (Workshop, 1998).
1. Read examples of found poetry and explore with students […]2004, Nile Stanley, Creating Readers with Poetry, Maupin House Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 89 - You may have already used Owl Moon (Yolen), Snow Comes to the Farm (Tripp), The Whales' Song (Sheldon), or The Seashore Book (Zolotow) for found poetry. Mentor texts work well here because students are already familiar with [them].2007, Lynne R. Dorfman, Rose Cappelli, Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6, Stenhouse Publishers, →ISBN, page 193
- Brett Dillingham, author and storyteller, advocates integrating content reading, note taking, poetry writing, and performance in the following found-poetry activity (Workshop, 1998).
Questions about found poetry
- What does found poetry mean?
- Found poetry means poetry created by taking words or phrases from other sources and making changes in spacing or line breaks, or adding or deleting text to impart new meaning.
- What part of speech is found poetry?
- Found poetry is a noun.
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