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Activity 10 Building-stage
• Poems may have multiple
layers to analyze, some of them
might be inaccessible without
knowing the poet and their
other poems in full detail, so
give students the freedom
to consider more
literal interpretations while
fostering the skill of reading
between the lines.

• Poetry (and literature in general)
is seldom naïve, so poetry has
messages beyond what it is
written. One of the purposes
of a good reading is to unveil
those secrets and, in doing so,
enhance the enjoyment
of reading.
• You may change this activity so
your students can read one of
their poems in greater detail,
instead of following the book.

Activity 11
• Looking for frequently used
words is a way to understand
poems. The strategy is similar to
the one used in the first session
of this practice.

• When looking for frequently
used words, ask your students
to focus on nouns, adjectives,
adverbs and verbs (you might or might not use these labels), rather than focusing on connectives (such as
and, but, or) or determiners (this, that, the, a), which may be even more abundant.

Translate icon / Additional definitions: implicit (adj.): implícito/a; que está sugerido aunque no
aparezca expresado implícitamente (incondicional, total, absoluto)

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