COMPARING TEXTS - READING WINTER POETRY: 77 BOOM CARDS

These Boom Cards are perfect for teaching Reading Comprehension – Reading Poetry and Comparing Texts. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these self-grading exercises that are gamified for student engagement.

After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based Boom Cards students will be able to:

• Compare and contrast the two poems based on the poet’s description of winter and snow.
• Provide an objective summary of the meanings of poems.
• Use textual clues to infer the central idea including its relationship to the setting and characters of the poems.
• Use specified criteria to find poetry elements of the poems for poem analysis.
• Use PEE (Point-Evidence-Explain) model to analyse the poet’s use of figurative language in the poems.
• Write PEEL (Point-Evidence-Explain-Link) paragraphs about the use of figurative language in the poems.

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• Can even be used on your Smart Board.

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