Different Forms Of Poetry Collections From Our Two Week...

Students will use this best work portfolio to demonstrate their top poetry collections from our two week poetry unit. Students will write porems that convey sensory details unsing the ventions of poetry. After that, students will collect different forms of poetry to publish in their portfolio that showcase their highest quality of work. Information gathered on the summative assessment will be used to help better students learning and actively include students in their personal learning process. In the end, portfolios will be on display for Family Reading Night at the end of the month. TEKS objective(s) covered:  §110.14. English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 3, 3(6) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Poetry. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to describe the characteristics of various forms of poetry and how they create imagery (e.g., narrative poetry, lyrical poetry, humorous poetry, free verse 3(10) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Sensory Language. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about how an author s sensory language creates imagery in literary text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to identify language that creates a graphic visual experience and appeals to the senses. 3(17) Writing/Writing Process. Students use elements of theShow MoreRelatedThe Way Wordsworth and Heaney Present Nature and Rural Life in Their Poetry4285 Words   |  18 Pagesin Their Poetry Born 1770, in Cockermouth, William Wordsworth spent his early life and many of his formative years attending a boys school in Hawkshead, a village in the Lake District. 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