Machine generated contents note: I. Theory and Research -- 1. Research Base for the 360-Degree Approach -- Why Teach Students to Describe the Meaning of Texts? -- What Is the 360-Degree Approach? -- Why Use Poetry to Help Students Develop Textual Power? -- What Makes Performance an Effective Approach to Teaching Close Reading? -- What Is the Best Way to Get Students Started with Performance? -- What Is Think-Aloud, and Why Does It Work? -- Does Creative Writing Really Make Our Students Better Academic Readers and Writers? -- How Can We Facilitate Writers Workshops with Artistic and Academic Benefits? -- How Can We Prepare Students to Write Academic Essays with Collegiate Levels of Fluency? -- How Can Instruction Be Differentiated within This 360-Degree Approach? -- II. Practice -- 2. Teaching Close Reading through Performance and Recitation -- Poems as Scripts -- Lesson 1 Visualizing and Thinking about Persona -- Lesson 2 Dividing Poems into Parts and Determining Antecedent Scenarios -- Lesson 3 Paraphrasing and Analyzing Arguments -- Lesson 4 Determining the Emotional Moves -- Additional Resources for Chapter 2 -- 3. Teaching Close Reading and Powerful Writing through Imitation -- Poems as Models for Imitation -- Lesson 5 Structural Devices in Free Verse -- Lesson 6 Rhythm in a Hymn -- Lesson 7 Quatrains and Couplets in Sonnet Arguments -- Lesson 8 Other Sonic Patterns -- Additional Resources for Chapter 3 -- 4. Representing Close Readings in Academic Writing -- Poems as a Springboard for Academic Argument -- Lesson 9 Analyzing How Agency Shapes Meaning in a Poem -- Lesson 10 Analyzing How Syntax and Sentence Variety Shape Meaning in a Poem -- Lesson 11 Understanding How Poets Create Varying Speech Acts within Sentences and Lines -- Lesson 12 Analyzing How the Parts Reflect the Whole -- Additional Resources for Chapter 4.