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Compare and contrast prose and poetry. Identify similarities between poetry, prose, and drama. Read and analyze the structure of written examples of poetry, drama, and prose. Assess students’ ability to differentiate between a poem, drama, or standard piece of prose. And a lot more!
Poems are written in lines and stanzas instead of sentences and paragraphs. Prose is made up of sentences and paragraphs without any metrical (or rhyming) structure. Drama is a piece of writing that tells a story; it is performed on a stage and uses dialogue. Download to read more.
Poems, Drama, Prose Differences. In this lesson plan, your students will learn all about these three different types of literature and their key characteristics. They’ll also have a chance to identify each one in some well-known examples.
Develop critical thinking skills, understanding how an author’s purpose differs for different texts, by contrasting poetry and prose. Understand that reading poetry requires a different stance and set of reading strategies.
In this lesson, students will learn the characteristics of poetry, prose, and drama to distinguish between and even write them. They will read through examples of each.
In this resource, your students will learn the essential characteristics of prose and poetry. 1) Anchor charts help students understand key concepts or strategies. 2) The visual aspect of the chart helps students remember the information better.
At a glance, students might have an idea of the difference between the two genres. Prose refers to paragraphs of text using “normal” language (their words, not mine). Poetry has line breaks and stanzas and uses fancy words.
