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Engaging with poetry - modern poems

Learning objects Engaging with poetry - modern poems

TLF ID M016306

This resource focuses on modern poetry from a range of contemporary source. Students have the opportunity to learn about how language forms and features of a selection of modern poems. They explore how composers use language, rhythm and imagery to engage their audience and the ways in which imaginative texts can explore and express emotion and feeling. Students have the opportunity to learn to respond to the language forms and features of a variety of poems, explain their responses to the ways of representing the real world.

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Educational details

Educational value
  • This resource focuses on modern poetry. It supports the study of poetry forms. It examines a selection of modern poems. It provides audio readings of the poems, interactive activities and video resources about contemporary poetry.
Year level

7; 8; 9; 10

Topics Aboriginal English literature Regional literature Poetry Text structure Literary criticism Literary devices Culture Literature Attitudes Literary styles Critical thinking Language conventions Lyric poetry Narratives
Learning area
  • English

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Contributors
  • Author
  • Name: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Organization: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Description: author
  • Contributor
  • Name: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Organization: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Description: author
  • Name: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Organization: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Description: Data contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Publisher
  • Name: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Organization: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Description: Publisher
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
Access profile
  • Generic
Learning Resource Type
  • Interactive
Rights
  • © State of New South Wales, Department of Education and Communities, 2013.