As Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote, “Prose, the best words poetry, the best words in the best order.” Reluctant readers, emerging readers, and ELL readers particularly appreciate the less-dense text while proficient readers value their lyricism and creative structures, the words, the spacing-sometimes creatively designed. NOVELS-IN-VERSE is a text format which engages readers for divergent reasons. Verse texts lend themselves to lessons for teaching poetic elements and devices and can be employed as mentor texts for writing poetry or poetically. These novels are available by diverse authors on diverse topics, featuring diverse characters and settings. VERSE NOVELS are published in a variety of genres, i.e., memoir, biography, historical fiction, and all other types of fiction, and written at a range of reading levels. In some verse novels, there are two narrators, one narrating in verse and one in prose, in some cases written by two co-authors some verse novels offer multiple narrators and perspectives. Novels-in-verse can be multi-formatted, employing a fusion of different types of verse, prose, and graphics. VERSE NOVELS are novels written in free verse in other types of verse, such as Nikki Grimes’ Garvey’s Choice written in tanka or a in variety of verse types, as in Laura Shovan's The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary.
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