How do pupils relate paired passages to each other? Here's a resource that helps! The lesson includes a short story and a poem as a set of paired reading passages, followed by some analysis questions. It also includes an essay template for scholars to organize their writing—a great skill for them to practice.

Concepts

independent reading, essay organization, essay writing, supporting details, thesis statements, poetry, short stories, literary analysis

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Before learners read the paired passages, discuss ways to mark up the text by questioning, underlining, or highlighting to help with reading comprehension
• Break the class into small groups to discuss each of the analysis questions after reading the paired passages, and then engage in a whole-class discussion
  

Classroom Considerations

• Graphic organizers, such as a T-Chart or Venn diagram, might help individuals organize their ideas about each of the reading passages
• Provide scholars with dictionaries to look up unfamiliar words in the passages

Pros

• Includes a checklist to guide students through each step of the process of writing an extended response
• Targeted analysis questions help classmates plan their responses

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.9-10.1 RL.11-12.1 W.9-10.2.a W.9-10.2.b W.9-10.2.f W.11-12.2.a W.11-12.2.b W.11-12.2.f