- Teach poetic language as a tool to strengthen all types of writing
- Motivate students to actually want to write and revise
- Inspire students to find their own voice through poetic writing
- Stimulate students’ writing with exercises in metaphor, observation, rhythm, narrative
- Engage students in the writing process through modeling, discussion, and mini lessons
- Enhance students’ ability to improve on writing and reading tests
- Strengthen students’ inferential reading skills
- Empower students to become detective poets, reading for meaning
- Illustrate how poetry teaches writing skills through vocabulary, word choice, detail