Part III
Prompt: Read the following poem. Pause after each stanza to write a prediction, note questions that come to mind, or reflect on an earlier prediction or question.
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
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I predict that…
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Why…
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I think that…
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Who is …
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Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
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Complete two starter sentences, reflecting on your thinking process as you read the poem. |
Why did…
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Reading this part makes me think that this ________________________
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______________________________________________is about to happen. |
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This is confusing because…
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Why…
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And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
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Complete two starter sentences, reflecting on your thinking process as you read the poem. |
Oh, I get it…
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I wonder if…
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Do you think that…
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Why did…
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I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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Complete two starter sentences, reflecting on your thinking process as you read the poem. |
At first I thought _______________________________________________
__________________________________________________but now I
think _______________________________________________________.
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What would happen if . . .
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This part is really saying . . .
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At this point, I predict the speaker will _____________________________
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from Beers, Kylene. (2003). When Kids Can’t Read: What Teachers Can Do. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann.
