Poetry Personification
Goals Vocabulary recognition skills Practice the reading process Review Affixes- prefix, suffix Identify figurative language within a selection Identify alliteration and personification Review Homophones Discuss Imagery
Reading Process Understand the problem. Read title, examine pictures/graphics and background of information provided. Make three predictions. Read/Review the opened- ended question. Read/review the multiple choice questions.
6. Read the story. 7. Underline, highlight, or asterisk * the key points in story that relate to the open-ended question or multiple choice questions. 8. Take notes on test story or on scrap paper
9. Read the story a second time with open-ended question in mind. 10. Complete the reading open-ended web. 11. Complete a rough draft. 12. Edit 13. Final copy of open-ended question.
14. Reread the story with multiple choice questions in mind. 15. Answer the multiple choice questions. 16. Review and check your work/answers
Prefixes re- pre- mis- in- dis- un- non- Again Before Not/Wrongly Not
Suffixes -ful -less -ble -ly -ness -ment Full of Lack of/don’t have Able/can do State of act of, result in a certain way
Homophone Homophones are words that are pronounced the same way as one or more words but have different meanings and spellings. Hair and hare There and their Blue and blew See and sea
Homophones The boy put shampoo on his (hare/hair). Mum put some (flower/flour) in the cake mix. James didn't have a very good (nights/knights) sleep. A rabbit is a bit like a (hare/hair). Tony got chased by a large (bare/bear).
Metaphor Examples: 1. Her teeth are white pearls. Compares two things that are not the same It always uses a direct comparison DOES NOT use like or as Examples: 1. Her teeth are white pearls. 2. The car, a bolt of lightening, screeched around the corner.
Metaphor Even a child could carry my dog around for hours. He’s such a feather. This metaphor implies that Dogface __________. a. is not cute b. looks like a bird c. is not heavy d. can fly
Simile A comparison between two things using LIKE or AS Examples 1. The car is as fast as lightening. 2. Her smile is like the sun on a summer day.
SIMILE 1. Playing chess with Ashley is like trying to outsmart a computer. The activity “playing chess with Ashley” is being compared to “trying to outsmart a computer.” The point is that Ashley can think in a powerful manner that resembles the way a computer operates, not that she is like a computer in any other way. 2. His temper was as explosive as a volcano. His temper is being compared to a volcano in that it can be sudden and violent.
Personification When you give a human or living characteristic to something non-human. Example: The birds sang their morning song. The squirrels played tag throughout the park. The trees shivered in the wind
Poetry When All the World is Full of Snow New Year Snowbird Just by reading the title how can we apply parts of the reading process that are BEFORE READING STRATEGIES?
Poetry With poetry we have to really pay attention to what the poem is saying. Poetry is sometimes difficult to understand so we should always read it at least 3 times. Once for flow Twice for understanding open ended Three for understanding multiple choice
Imagery A word or group of words in a literary work which appeal to one or more of the senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing and smell; figurative language
Inference When the text does not directly say something we have to make an inference about it. What does the author mean by stating the last stanza in “When All the World is Full of Snow” to hear the swirling stillness grow, when all the world is full of snow.
It SAYS, I SAY, and SO… It SAYS: to hear the swirling stillness grow, when all the world is full of snow. I SAY: When is snows a lot, many people stay off the streets. Sometimes works and schools are closed.
And SO… Maybe the author meant that it is quiet and peaceful. Nobody is out and everything seems still. Almost as if nothing has been touched. The author hears the hum of silence.