I thought that Jonathan Holden did an awesome job at incorporating higher order thinking questions into poetry. Personally poetry was not something that I remember reading much of in elementary school which made it harder for me to understand later on in life. I love that he embraced different opinions of students and how they interpreted poems. I think we often forget that poems are a form of art and it can be up to the reader/observer to decide how it makes them feel and what it makes them think about. I also think that he has done a great job at showing students that their voice matters and that their opinions and views matter. He has given his class the freedom to explore poetry in a fun way while giving them appropriate tools needed to be successful when dissecting the literature.
I think poetry can be used in a variety of ways in the classroom. It can be used for rhyming techniques, choral readings, comprehension, interpretation, influencing skills, sequencing of events and much more. I think poetry can be scary for students who are not used to reading it because the dialogue is so different and unrecognizable at times. The more students read and are read to with poetry the more comfortable they will become. There are so many books that they can be introduced to and read to weekly.
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