【拓展提升】
学诗，首先就需要多读，只有在读中才能真切感受到诗的音韵美、节奏美、意象美。作为自读课文，其与精读课文相比，教师重点分析的内容可以少些，重要的是拓展学生对此单元学习内容的认识，打开学诗、读诗的思路。因而，此篇课文的重点放在比较读诗上，包括两首诗情感的对比，看大自然的多面性；包括描述同一种大自然现象──夜，却也有不同写法；包括译诗不同风格的对比；包括英文原版诗歌与译诗的对比等等，增加对诗多样表现手法的认识，是这篇课文的特色之一。在这一过程中，应该让学生多说，不管说得怎么样，只要学生有所体会，就能不同程度达到要求。
《蝈蝈与蛐蛐》原文
The Grasshopper and the Cricket
John Keats
The poetry of earth is never dead.
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the newmown mead
That is the Grasshopper’s. He takes the lead
In summer luxury; he has never done
With his delights, for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
The poetry of earth is ceasing never.
On a lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills
The cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever，
And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,
The grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.