4.3 Be A Poetry Sleuth

Poetry Reading

You can use context clues to figure out the meanings of words and phrases in poems in the same way you saw how a context clue should have been used in the "ruptured" pop comic and the text messages. In lesson 4.2, you read that poetry reading was a skill? That often a poem was read more than one time? Here is what you learned in the last lesson:

Reading poetry is a skill. Poems are often read more than one time.

• • First reading: Try to get the "gist" of the poem - a sense of what the poem is about and a sense of how it may be read. 

• • Second reading: This is usually a slower read, where you try to understand the poem better. (You completed this in the last lesson when you identified rhyming couplets and practised reading the poem out loud.)

• • Third+ reading: This reading may be to answer specific questions, to read it with deeper understanding, to read it more fluently and expressively, or to answer specific questions about the poem. Remember, good readers answer questions about the text using evidence from the text. You can be a sleuth by going back to the details in the text to find answers. (You are going to do this today!)