Glimpse a beautiful moment through poetry with a reading comprehension activity. As sixth graders read through "City Autumn" by Joseph Moncure March, they answer ten questions about the setting, mood, vocabulary, and punctuation of the poem.

Concepts

reading comprehension, autumn, poetry, poetry analysis, mood, setting, literary elements, colons

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Add to a reading comprehension assessment
• Use in a language arts homework packet during a poetry unit

Classroom Considerations

• Though the passage is an eight-line poem, the resource is four pages long with questions

Pros

• Addresses several literacy skills, including poetic devices, comprehension, and making inferences
• Includes both short-answer and multiple-choice questions
• Provides plenty of space on the first page for annotating the poem
• Comes with an answer key

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.6.1 RL.6.2 RL.6.10