Get everyone involved! Build fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and analysis skills all in one short lesson.
I use this lesson with my 11th grade American lit/intensive reading class; however, it would work just as well in any reading or literature class. On the first day, each student works with a single stanza of the poem and then on the second day, we present and discuss the poem as a whole.
Each of the eighteen stanzas is printed on a single page. Students define unfamiliar words and phrases, complete text reformulations, analyze their stanzas, and build fluency with repeated readings.
The kids enjoy seeing how their �piece of the puzzle� fits into the larger poem and each student was intimately involved in the process, rather than a passive receiver of a summary of the poem.
The lesson plan comes with more detailed instructions and classroom procedures (see the preview below).
Thanks for checking out my lesson; both my students and I really enjoyed this one. I hope you will, too. If you do decide to buy, please leave feedback and let me know what you thought about the lesson. I�m always looking for ways to improve and would like to know how the lesson worked for you.
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Julie Conlon
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Over the last 13 years, I have taught 7th grade through junior college, so the lesson plans that I share here could come from any of those grade levels. I am currently teaching 10th grade reading and world literature and 11th grade reading and American literature. I've been teaching reading for seven years, so most of my lessons were designed with my reluctant readers in mind. Recently I taught an honors level 9th grade class along with my remedial classes; I was surprised by how much my honors students learned when I used some of the same lessons (vocabulary, especially) that I was using with my remedial students. I think all of our students benefit if we slow down and emphasize quality over quantity.
