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8.2.1 Intensive Reading: Poem
English · Grade 8 · 2 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Selecting information from a poem; characters, theme, repetition
- Inferring unfamiliar words; reciting with non-verbal cues
- Direct and inferential questions; judgements with evidence; a short debate
What you will be able to do
- select required information from a text
- use non-verbal cues to bring out the message in a poem
- make judgement on the information in a text
- infer the meaning of unfamiliar words using contextual clues
- acknowledge the importance of comprehension in life
Key questions
“How can one tell the meaning of unfamiliar words used in a text?”
“Why should one support an opinion about a story or person with evidence?”
Lessons
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Select information and infer words
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizFrom a domestic-tourism poem, pick speaker, place and repetition, and infer two new words from context.
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Recite, judge with evidence, debate
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizPerform the bus poem with non-verbal cues, answer mixed questions, then debate a judgement supported by a quoted line.