Learning to Write, Writing to Learn —
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Chapter 4
Writing and Poetry in the Elementary Grades

Roselmina Indrisano

Jennifer Hauck Bryson

Merri Jones

Robert Pinsky, U.S. poet laureate in 1997, initiated a call for submissions of favorite poems. In one year, 18,000 Americans responded, leading to the creation of the “Favorite Poem Project” for the purpose of “celebrating, documenting, and promoting poetry's role in American's lives.” Ultimately, the project yielded a website, four anthologies, a video series, a book based on Pinsky's lectures at Princeton University, and three summer institutes for teachers and administrators. The summer institutes and their effects on teachers, administrators, students, and their schools and communities are the focus of this chapter.

Indrisano, R., Bryson, J., & Jones, M. (2005). Writing and Poetry in the Elementary Grades. In R. Indrisano, & J.R. Paratore (Eds.), Learning to Write, Writing to Learn (pp. 57-70). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.