When students are faced with a poem, they use the POETS acronym to understand the poem and summarize what it's about! Here's how it works: Preview This step takes the longest. Students do several things to get their brain ready to think deeply about the poem. 1. Read title, notice illustrations 2. Number lines & stanzas 3. Read a stanza at a time, make a sketch of the details in that stanza 4. Find the rhyme scheme by noticing pattern of rhyming words 5. Identify the type of poem...
