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Once we work through and hone in and develop a strong skill set with the five inferring strategies, as a culminating task students are asked to read and interpret poetry. The reason that we chose poetry to do this is because there's a lot of metaphors and symbolism in poetry and students can really see how to read between the lines, and use these inferring strategies to make meaning of something that isn't always so explicit.

As a culminating task, students are asked to write their own poetry and trade their poems with their friends, use the strategies to interpret each other's poems and enhance each other's poems, do some rewrite and some draft writing. This way the culminating task is a demonstration of both their inferring skills, but also teaches them how to use their own assessment for learning, their assessment while they're learning and eventually their assessment of learning.

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