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Read Write Think: What Makes Poetry? Exploring Line Breaks

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This instructional activity explains how analyzing poetry is a many-layered process. This instructional activity introduces the special characteristics of poetry and leads students through a look at how poems are structured and why. Includes links to poems and web resources.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Concepts
close reading, critical thinking, poetry
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Additional Tags
analysis, analyzing poems, characteristics of poems, exploring poems, exploring poetry, learning to critique, line breaks, literary criticism theory, poems, poetic characteristics, reading poems, understanding poems, understanding poetry, ncte, readwritethink, literary criticism and theory
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)