Poetry Practice Reading Comprehension and Questions: “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes

This is a quick and easy poetry practice where students read the poem, “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes. This could be used as a stand alone lesson plan, an EOC prep activity, or a simple and fast assessment after a unit on poetry.

When you purchase this product, you will receive:

– Full text of poem with plenty of space to annotate

– 4 open-ended questions to guide students through initial analysis of poem

– 8 multiple choice questions covering the following skills/standards: tone, theme, tone shift, symbolism, perspective, perspective, text structure

– Constructed Response question

– Guided Constructed Response and color coding activity to check for understanding

– Answer Key for all activities