LESSON FOUR: Rock N’ Rhythm & Rhyme (Part One)

LESSON DESCRIPTION

Working in a large group, students play a game to identify rhyming words that are written on cards.  Students apply learning as they make flip books using/creating rhyming words and verse.

GRADE-LEVEL EXPECTATIONS

o              R2B  The student will identify author’s use of rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration in poetry and prose, with assistance

o              R3B  The student will identify and explain author’s use of rhyme in nonfiction text.

LESSON MATERIALS

Sources of Literature

o        Franny and Ginny by Pat Cummings

o        The Frogs Who Wore Red Suspenders by Jack Prelutsky

o        George Washington’s Teeth by Deborah Chandra & Madeleine Comora

Supplies 

o        Overhead

o        Construction or copy paper for flip book

o        Sticky notes

o        Scissors

o        I Have Who Has game cards

Handouts provided

o        Matching game I Have Who Has

Words to know

o        rhythm

o        rhyme

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

Flip Book:  The students create a flip book.  Students take a piece of paper and fold it hot dog style (fold in half the long way).  The top layer will be cut into fourths.  Place 10 words on the board that can be easily rhymed.  The student picks one word from the board and writes it on the first flap.  Then the student writes three words that rhyme with the word on the first flap.  On the inside of each flap, the students write one sentence using the word on the flap (in all, four sentences are written).  The word they put in their sentence must be the last word of their sentence.  The reason for this is when the students finish with their flap book they have created nonsense poems that rhymes.  Example: 

 Hot - It is hot.

 Pot - I have a pot.

 Cot - I sleep on a cot.

 Dot - There is a black dot.

Illustrations would enhance activity.

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

1.              Use the activity from the formative assessment from the previous lesson to review student answers of rhyming words. 

2.              Using selections such as Franny and Ginny by Pat Cummings (fiction), George Washington’s Teeth by Deborah Chandra & Madeleine Comora (nonfiction), and/or “The Frogs Who Wore Red Suspenders” by Jack Prelutsky (fiction) select parts of text to put on overheads for students to find and circle rhyming words. 

3.              Lead an activity called I Have Who Has (see handout).  Each student has their own card that looks like the following: 

The card above is the teacher’s.  Say, “Who has a word that rhymes with cat?”  A student looks at his/her card and says, “I have mat.  Who has a word that rhymes with hog?”  Then the game continues.  The game is finished when the teacher responds, “I have ___.”  The cards are shuffled and repeated as many times as necessary.