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Grade Level: K
# of Students: 19
9:00
Content Area: Literacy
Materials ( include technology): Lucky Hares and Itchy Bears by Susan Ewing, Poem
worksheets, colored pencils
Standards:
STAGE ONE
STAGE TWO
Objective(s):
Students will
explore other examples of Alaskan
animals and be able to create
rhyming poems.
STAGE THREE:
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about Alaskan animals? What was special about the words in that book?
Do you remember what the name is for writing that rhymes like that?
Today, were going to get a chance to draw our own pictures of our favorite
Alaskan animal and write our very own poem talking about that animal.
Process and products.
Differentiation or adaptations
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Closure: If there is time at the end of class, have students share their
poems and pictures with the class. Did you like writing your own
poems? What was hard about writing your poem? Reading and writing
poems can be a fun way to talk about and learn different things.
Personal Reflection: It was fun to follow up the dialogic reading lesson with this
poem activity for the students. They really enjoyed reviewing some of the
animals that we had read about from the book and also thinking of their own
Alaskan Animals that they could write about. It was a little difficult for them to
think of rhyming words on their own (especially for animals like octopus!), but
there were a lot of adult helpers in the room and they were able to help kids come
up with words and sentences that rhymed. I was impressed with some of the
poems that students came up with on their own, and most of them also did a
great job trying to write some of the words on their own as well. I was glad that
we had a little bit of time at the end of the lesson for students to share their
poems with the rest of the class. They liked seeing everyone elses pictures and
had fun hearing the other rhyming poems.
If I was going to teach this lesson again, I might assist with the rhyming words a
little more by giving examples of different Alaskan animals and then having the
students come up with rhyming words together for each animal and have these
displayed on the board. That way, if someone was stuck finding a rhyming word,
they could choose from one of the examples that we came up with as a class.
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