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Line Break Explorer
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| Grades | 3 – 8 |
| Interactive Type | Writing Poetry |
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| URL | http://www.readwritethink.org /files/resources/interactives /lb_explorer/ |
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ABOUT THIS INTERACTIVE |
Learning poetry's special characteristics can help students understand, appreciate, and compose poetry. One defining characteristic of poetry is the use of line breaks to create rhythm and rhyme, suggest meaning, and produce a particular appearance. The Line Break Explorer engages children in exploring a poem (shown at left) and hypothesizing about why lines are broken where they are in poetry. Students then experiment with line breaks and how they affect rhythm, sound, meaning, appearance, and can substitute for punctuation in poetry. Their practice with line breaks can be printed out for peer and teacher feedback and discussion.
Grades 1 – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Choosing One Word: Summarizing Shel Silverstein’s “Sick”
Students select what they believe to be the most important word in a text that they have read and justify their choice using examples from the text.
