Have you thought about how you are going to teach Literature and Poetry, especially to Middle School students? It is not easy! The Common Core Standards for Middle School says that students are to analyze a poem’s/literature’s form or structure. They are to do this analysis with evidence from the text. You see this and you think, this is way too hard! That is what I thought when I saw the standards. It gets you thinking more about how to teach these skills. To do this, the students should be able to identify the different literary genres and poetic forms. Okay, this is a good start. Once they can recognize the different types, then you can move them on to the breakdown of style – analysis.
Teacher-author, Matthew Forman, ELA in Middle School, has created a digital resource that will do this. This resource is a deck of Boom Cards. In fact, it is several sets of Boom Cards that he has bundled together, Literary Genres: The Prose and Poetry Bundle of Boom Cards. Thank you, Matthew!
I am going to take each set that is a part of this bundle and
give you some insights.
Let us begin with Literary Genres: The Basics of Literary Genres: Poetry and Prose Boom Cards.
Matthew breaks down this set with sections. Each section has teaching frames, students then show what they have learned by identifying, matching or fill-in-the-blanks.
The students begin with the general level identifying prose
and poetry in several ways. Then it takes them to the next level of subgenres.
It is followed up with the students identifying text features, text types and descriptions.
Then all is tied together (reviewed) and students show what they have learned
by identifying, matching, or filling in blanks.
It is thorough, but what is even better is that this is all
done with Boom Cards. The students will have fun learning and practicing the
forms and structures of poetry and prose!
I'll be reviewing the other sets in Matthew's Bundle. Stayed tuned for more!
Froggy About Teaching - Debbie
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