Description
In this lesson, students learn the process for reading poetry. Students may feel anxious about “getting” poetry, so consider how you can be encouraging and upbeat. In Lessons 12–15, students will work extensively with the How to Read a Poem anchor chart, which gives them specific steps on reading and rereading poetry to find different layers of meaning. You will model those steps in this lesson. Remember to emphasize the need to cite textual evidence and consider how each choice the author makes contributes to the text’s overall meaning. Students should not be reading to find metaphors but rather to analyze how each metaphor contributes to the poem as a whole.
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Bilingual Language Progressions
These resources, developed by the New York State Education Department, provide standard-level scaffolding suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs) to help them meet grade-level demands. Each resource contains scaffolds at multiple levels of language acquisition and describes the linguistic demands of the standards to help ELA teachers as well as ESL/bilingual teachers scaffold content for their English learning students.
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From EngageNY.org of the New York State Education Department. Grade 7 ELA Module 3A, Unit 1, Lesson 12.
Available from engageny.org/resource/grade-7-ela-module-3a-unit-1-lesson-12; accessed 2015-05-29.
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