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Read Write Think: What Makes Poetry? Exploring Line Breaks

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This lesson explains how analyzing poetry is a many-layered process. This lesson 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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Concepts

close reading, critical thinking, poetry

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

Classroom Considerations

Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

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