Teaching Students to Interpret Author's Clues

The skills making inferences and drawing conclusions are umbrella terms that include an array of literacy skills. 

The following presentation focuses on introducing students to an overview of how to analyze clues provided by writers that imply the author's purpose, perspective, viewpoint, subject, theme, tone, and mood. 

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There are cloze notes that students can fill in as they follow along with the presentation below.

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The follow-up stations that accompany this will be posted shortly. The last several slides in the presentation guide students through the analysis of print advertisements, comics, political cartoons, and public service announcements. This serves as guided practice for the upcoming stations!

Poetry Stations Page Updated

Poetry Stations Updated!

 

As promised, the Poetry Stations are now posted! Student directions, materials, and printables are now available for download on the "Poetry Stations" page. 

Click for Poetry Presentation Guided Notes

Click for Poetry Presentation

You can also access the downloadable Poetry Stations Book, as well as the Poetry Presentation with guided notes, below!

Click here to download Poetry Stations Book.

Mood and Tone: Analyzing Different Poems on the Same Topic

Mood and Tone:  Analyzing Different Poems on the Same Topic

After reading and viewing videos of poems on the same topic with different moods and tones (and discussing the differences as a class), students independently completed a classwork assignment in which they were given words that represented each tone and mood and asked to match the descriptor to the appropriate poem.

This will lead into a word choice activity that moves from the poetry unit to a unit that encompasses diction and word choice in various types of prose. 

Click to download handout.

Click to download handout.

A copy of "Ode to Mi Gato" can be accessed here.

Poetry Book

Update April 2016: Check out the new poetry stations added to the Stations: Reading Page! Link on the homepage.

Here is a sneak peek at Candace's newest station rotation! We reunited to introduce stations that reinforce concepts of figurative language, poetic devices, and mood and tone created through word choice. 

The students were so proud of their final products, and they were eager to share their final products at the cumulative "Poetry Jam" that would wrap up the unit.

The Poetry Stations page is under construction, but click on the Poetry Book Link below to see the activities and instructions!

Students cut out lines for a 'found poem'

Students illustrate their poster poetry.

Students sort through words for magnetic poetry.

Click to download Poetry Book template.

Reunited for station rotations!