Sound Devices Sub Plan, Grades 6-8: Read-Aloud Lab (No Prep)

"I chatter, chatter, as I flow." The brook speaks for itself in six stanzas of Alfred Tennyson's "The Brook" (1855), printed as 24 numbered lines with the skipped lines marked. Students whisper the poem line by line, find rhyme, alliteration, assonance and repetition (12 short find-it questions), and explain what those sounds do: what lines 13 to 16 make the brook sound like, and why the repeated lines 23 and 24 suit a brook that keeps flowing.

What's inside

• Sub Plan, 2 pages
• Poem Page, 1 page: six stanzas of "The Brook" by Alfred Tennyson (1855), 24 numbered lines
• Student Packet, 2 pages
• Answer Key, 1 page, with a 30-point grading guide
• All four documents in one ready-to-print PDF, in print order, 6 pages
• 9 files in all. Print only: no slides, no tech, no scissors.

Answer key included

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