A reading list developed in our "Healing Power of YA Books" workshop, according to subjects that teens may find to be helpful as they work their way through personal issues.
This is a quick writing exercise that is non-threatening and turns everyone into a poet. It also offers an opportunity to remind students of aspects of grammar they may have forgotten. For lower lever students I sometimes hand out a list with examples of prepositions, active verbs, and/or vivid adjectives.
