Finders Keepers describes two strategies for using the found poetry activity, in which students use an author's words and their own reflections to create responses to literature by writing poems. The author, a middle school language arts teacher, begins by detailing how she integrates reading logs into her classroom instruction and teaches students to use these logs as the basis for their found poems.

Finders Keepers describes two strategies for using the found poetry activity, in which students use an author's words and their own reflections to create responses to literature by writing poems. The author, a middle school language arts teacher, begins by detailing how she integrates reading logs into her classroom instruction and teaches students to use these logs as the basis for their found poems. Through their reading log entries, students respond to the text in a variety of ways, ranging from a simple summary of the plot to lengthy reactions drawn from the student's thoughts, feelings and ideas. This resource also provides explicit directions for using the found poetry activity and student samples, which document one student's work in progress, showing his original reading log entry, poem in progress, and final product. (author/ncl)