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Patterns in Poetry: Rhythm Lesson Plan Information | Lesson Plan Activities | Printable version (including handouts) (PDF)

Standard Listen Actively Outcomes Students will recognize the link between music and poetry, repeating patterns in poetry--meter, feet, line, and stanza, how rhythm helps organize stressed and unstressed syllables into lines of poetry and how listening for patterns contributes to understanding poetry.

Classroom Information

GED Descriptors      Language Arts - Reading Roles      Family, Community Member Program Type(s)      ABE, GED, Urban, Rural, Corrections NRS Learner Levels (ABE/GED)       1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Time Frame       Approximately 1 hour Technology Integration Patterns in Poetry Perspectives in American Literature OLRC Poetry Matrix

Keywords

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Purposeful, Transparent, Contextual, Building Expertise

Purposeful and Transparent Listening and then reading poetry will help students focus on the senses that contribute to enjoyment and understanding of poetry. Since understanding poems will be tested on the Language Arts Section of the GED test, students will have experience listening and reading poetry. Contextual Students can apply their experience with patterns, especially rhythm, to poems. Recognizing patterns is also a critical thinking skill that has applications in everyday life. Listening skills also have application in everyday living. Building Expertise By first listening to a poem and then reading it aloud together, learners reinforce their listening comprehension skills. They develop them further by reading new material aloud to their peers and listening to their peers read aloud to them.

Lesson Designer Connie Sapin Ohio Literacy Resource Center (330) 672-0761 csapin@literacy.kent.edu

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