![]() ![]() They may compare a writing such as the three versions of a poem below.Įxperiencing the happy times of childhood, I fortunately had Students may want to look at diverse renditions of line breaks in a free verse poem to analyze how line breaks affect the subtle messages. When reading independently, I tell students to take an “eye-linger,” and, if reading aloud, line breaks require a pause shorter than that of a period and maybe even a comma. What I particularly appreciate in reading verse novels is the effectiveness of the line breaks which nuance the author’s or narrator’s message and allow the reader to note the words or phrases important to the authors’ meaning. As Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote, “Prose, the best words poetry, the best words in the best order.” Reluctant readers, emerging readers, and ELL readers particularly appreciate the less-dense text while proficient readers value their lyricism and creative structures, the words, the spacing-sometimes creatively designed. ![]() NOVELS-IN-VERSE is a text format which engages readers for divergent reasons. Verse texts lend themselves to lessons for teaching poetic elements and devices and can be employed as mentor texts for writing poetry or poetically. These novels are available by diverse authors on diverse topics, featuring diverse characters and settings. VERSE NOVELS are published in a variety of genres, i.e., memoir, biography, historical fiction, and all other types of fiction, and written at a range of reading levels. In some verse novels, there are two narrators, one narrating in verse and one in prose, in some cases written by two co-authors some verse novels offer multiple narrators and perspectives. Novels-in-verse can be multi-formatted, employing a fusion of different types of verse, prose, and graphics. VERSE NOVELS are novels written in free verse in other types of verse, such as Nikki Grimes’ Garvey’s Choice written in tanka or a in variety of verse types, as in Laura Shovan's The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary. ![]()
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