Her books are very helpful to teachers. This book is especially for teachers of second graders. She discusses how to teach poetry and the best part is that whole pages of this book are devoted to samples of student work. These samples could be used in classrooms to show children what is possible for students to write in the area of poetry. Being able to show student work samples is sometimes more helpful than anything. The poems she is talking about are all free verse, non-rhyming poems.