Middle School Poetry Word Walls

This PowerPoint lesson provides digital pre-reading resources, historical background info, vocabulary word study, practice, and assessment for THE POEM, ORANGES, BY GARY SOTO

PDF LINK INCLUDED

GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous literature by front-loading story elements critical to comprehension and aligned to standards

AUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual classrooms

PDF FILE. Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 8 printable worksheets to be used with the PPT lesson! These printables include Connotation and Grammar sort, Word Study, and Vocabulary Quiz with optional word bank and answer key.

POWERPOINT:
• Opening slides
-genre, author photo and short bio.

-author video

-prereading questions

-PDF to poem

• 2 setting slides
-Location photos with map

-Fresno, California video
-Time period photos with live link to period music clip!

• Vibrant Vocab slides: rouge, aisle, counter, tiers, hissing, release
-bold photos appear without word for inference making
-vocab word 'slides in' so photo can be first WITHOUT the word
-part of speech
-concise definition

•**Differentiated worksheet-**used as a pretest, posttest, or practice
• Quizlet practice link
• Part of speech sort
* Connotation sort

*Vocabulary organizer

DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:

· Introduce new story
· Provide backstory to text
· Stimulate group discussion
· Create predictions about text
· Use as distance learning resource
· Post on webpage for review
· Add to electronic notebooks
· Provide test review
· Prompt Writing or Research assignments
· Grammar study / parts of speech
· Discuss Word Connotation

PRINTABLE USES: word walls and interactive notebooks

Please be sure to view the preview and watch the video for detailed images and descriptions of the lesson.

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