Singer suggests going easy on close text analysis and instead give kids lots of opportunities to really listen to poetry (make sure it's the good stuff) and feel the emotion that's in the text.
Marilyn Singer has written all kinds of great books for children and young adults — picture books, fairy tales, mysteries, non-fiction, and novels — but poetry is her favorite. Singer is on a mission to “knock poetry off its pedestal” and to introduce kids to the pleasing rhythms and powerful emotion of poems, but also to encourage kids to express themselves through verse.
