Exploring a poem
This resource will help students understand how to read and analyse an unseen poem. The activities encourage students to look at form and structure, mood and rhyme and rhythm. There is a differentiated version of the resource with more support and sentence starters etc.
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Review this resource05/03/2020
I use this "recipe" for analysing a poem with all my groups. For the first term we tend to work on a poem with the worksheet ready to refer to. We move on to working without it and seeing just how much we can do without using the sheet. I also work with the headings as prompts that we dip into from a box so that they learn that you can group your information in a number of ways.
In conjunction with this I use the specific poetry vocabulary sheets - you get more marks for using the precise word required.
All my students also have a "collect a quote" page where they pop in lines from any texts that have appealed to them. The ability to use their favourite quotes when writing about another work have earned them credit in external examinations - according to visits to my department from examiners.
In conjunction with this I use the specific poetry vocabulary sheets - you get more marks for using the precise word required.
All my students also have a "collect a quote" page where they pop in lines from any texts that have appealed to them. The ability to use their favourite quotes when writing about another work have earned them credit in external examinations - according to visits to my department from examiners.
17/07/2013
