Unleash the power of poetry to boost all academic writing. Student writing outcomes will transform if we invest more time in the genre we too often ignore: poetry! The author of this book asserts that all good writing takes us to deeper places, whether it's narrative, argument, informational, or verse. So why not use the palm-size examples of poems to develop students' skills? This book helps you to teach techniques such as using sound, pattern, imagery, grammatical structures, and dialogue; select poems from the online companion website for read alouds and writing warm-ups; reshape students' attitudes about verse with contemporary spoken word and poems by today's favorite poets; know how to tuck specific poems into any part of the writing process to build your students' understanding of brainstorming, elaboration, paragraphing, argumentation; and more. No matter what students go on to do in life, being able to reach a broad audience with language that engages the whole mind is a gift. The resources here and online will stoke students' logic and creativity immeasurably.