Overview: |
This unit introduces poetry forms and craft elements while students explore poetry about everyday topics or themes. Students begin by discussing their varying definitions of poetry, brainstorming all the different types of poems they know, and briefly discussing elements of poetry. In each subsequent session, students are introduced to one form of poetry. This lesson uses concrete/shape, haiku, cinquain, two-voice, and free-form poetry, but the lesson can be easily adapted for any poetic form. Students read examples, define the form, and find additional examples in poetry books. They create their own poetry collection by adding examples, definitions, and their own poems to a writer's notebook. In the final session, students go back through the poems they have collected, looking for examples of five elements of poetry. |
| Content Standard(s): |
English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 3
| 5 ) Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections. [RL.3.5]
| English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 3
| 21 ) Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. [RF.3.4]
a. Read on-level text with purpose and understanding. [RF.3.4a]
b. Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. [RF.3.4b]
c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary. [RF.3.4c]
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
| English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 4
| 5 ) Explain major differences among poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text. [RL.4.5]
NAEP Framework
| English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 4
| 9 ) By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the Grades 4-5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. [RL.4.10]
NAEP Framework
| English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 4
| 21 ) Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. [RF.4.4]
a. Read on-level text with purpose and understanding. [RF.4.4a]
b. Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. [RF.4.4b]
c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary. [RF.4.4c]
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
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