LESSON FIVE: Text Features of Poetry

                             

LESSON DESCRIPTION

 

GRADE-LEVEL EXPECTATIONS

R2A        Recognize text features of fiction, poetry, and drama

 

LESSON MATERIALS

§         Source of literature

o           Bringing the Rain to  Kapiti Plains by Verna Aardema

 §         Supplies 

o        Chart paper

 

§         Handouts provided

 

§         Words to know

o        fiction

o        text features

 

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT 

Selected Response item five

 

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

 

1.        Review text features of narrative poetry (i.e. includes rhyme, rhythm, and tells a story, has characters, a setting, a plot, and can teach a lesson).

 

Questions

for

Students

Do all narrative poems have rhyming words and rhythm? Explain (No, some do not and are called free verse.)

Can you think of any poems that rhyme? (Roses are red, violets are blue…) Does this poem tell a story? No, it is not a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end. It’s a little “thought” poem, too short to give enough details for a plot, characters, or a setting.

 

  1. Review the poem Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain and have students identify the beginning, middle, and end of the story, the setting, and any changes that occur in the poem’s story.

 

Idea

 

Write the responses from the class discussion on a chart under the text feature headings: rhyme, rhythm, tells a story, has characters, a setting, a plot, and can teach a lesson.

 

3.        Discuss the changes that occur in the setting, characters, and problem.

 

Questions

for

students

 

What would happen if he setting for the poem was in another place? Arctic? Inside an ant hill?

How would the characters change?

How could problems and solutions change?