Unit Overview

Reading Poetry

In this module, you will read and listen to many poems to learn about:

  • how to read a poem
  • what makes a poem
  • characteristics of poems (structure and features)
  • what close readers do
  • how you can find evidence in a poem to support your ideas
  • how context clues can help to understand difficult words
  • how authors use language to make poems come to life

Reading Poetry