Your reading, and other people's
Poems do not have one correct meaning — but they do have readings the text cannot support.
Part of your national curriculum
- Reading: Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these responses
Lesson overview
What you'll learn in this lesson
Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these responses
Key learning points
- • Grounding your response
- • Weighing an alternative
- • The limit
This lesson at a glance
- 25 minutes
- 17 parts to scroll through
- 3 quick checks
- Marked quiz at the end
- Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses
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Your reading, and other people's
Poems do not have one correct meaning — but they do have readings the text cannot support.
In a nutshell
Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these responses
Learning cycle
Part 2 of 17
Learning cycle 1 of 2
Part 1 · Grounding your response
A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.
Explore the idea
Part 3 of 17
Learn
Grounding your response
A personal response is only worth reading if it is anchored to the words. Quote first, then say what those words made you think, and why.
Reset break
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Pause
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Explore the idea
Part 5 of 17
Learn
Weighing an alternative
Consider a reading you disagree with. Explain what evidence supports it, then explain why you find your own reading better supported. That is evaluation, not just disagreement.
Quick check
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Quick check
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Reset break
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Pause
That's sitting 2 of 4 done
Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Learning cycle
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Learning cycle 2 of 2
Part 2 · The limit
A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.
Explore the idea
Part 10 of 17
Learn
The limit
An interpretation fails when the text contradicts it. Openness is not the same as anything goes.
Quick check
Part 11 of 17
Reset break
Part 12 of 17
Pause
That's sitting 3 of 4 done
Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Challenge round
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Game · Sort it
Which of these are true?
Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.
True
Not true
Challenge round
Part 14 of 17
Game · Fill the gaps
Finish the sentences
Choose the word that belongs in each gap.
A ____ response is only worth reading if it is anchored to the words.
Challenge round
Part 15 of 17
Game · Recall cards
Which is a thesis rather than a summary?
Card 1 of 4
Mastery quiz
Part 16 of 17
Marked quiz
End of lesson quiz: Your reading, and other people's
4 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.
1. Which is a thesis rather than a summary?
2. Why embed quotations inside your own sentence?
3. What does evaluating an alternative reading show?
4. A strong conclusion:
Lesson round-up
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Lesson round-up
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Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these responses