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8.2.1 Intensive Reading
English · Grade 7 · 2 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Main idea versus supporting details in a poem
- Inferring words from context; direct and inferential questions
- Summarising a poem and connecting it to real travel and road crashes
What you will be able to do
- distinguish main ideas from supporting details from poems
- use contextual clues to infer the meaning of words and phrases in a text
- make connections between events in a poem and real life
- summarise events in a poem
- answer direct and inferential questions from poems
- acknowledge the role of intensive reading in lifelong learning
Key questions
“How can you identify the message in a poem?”
“What can we do to ensure we are safe during travel?”
Lessons
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Main idea, details and a hard word in a poem
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizFind what the travel poem is saying, hang the images on that idea, and infer a word from its neighbours.
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Questions, summary, real road
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizAnswer direct and inferential questions, summarise the poem in three lines, and connect it to a real travel choice.