LESSON FOUR: Listen to Poems and Rhyme
LESSON DESCRIPTION
GRADE-LEVEL EXPECTATIONS
R2A Recognize text features of fiction, poetry, and drama
LS1 Listen for enjoyment
LESSON MATERIALS
§ Source of literature
o Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain (poem) by Verna Aardema
o Optional: All Sorts of Sorts by Sharon Brown (narrative)
§ Supplies
o Chart paper
§ Handouts provided
§ Words to know
o fiction
o text features
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Rhyme: provide students with a copy of Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain with second rhyming word in each stanza covered. Have students supply the missing word. Rhythm: Student observation by teacher.
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Rhyme
1. Read an assortment of poems exhibiting strong rhythm and rhyme, including jump rope poems. Ask students to share reasons they enjoy listening to poetry leading them toward the concepts of rhythm and rhyme. Introduce the poem Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain. Ask students to make predictions about what the poem is about.
2. Reread the first four lines of the poem. Stop before the second rhyming word and have students supply the missing word.
3. Complete a word sort during which students read words and group them according to rhyming patterns.
Rhythm
4. Reread Kapiti Plain from rhyme lesson. Talk with students about differences between rhythm and rhyme. (Rhythm has a “beat” and rhyme has similar sounds.)
5. Use a jump rope to show the strong rhythm of jump rope rhymes. (Two jump rope rhymes are included.)
6. Reread Kapiti Plain and have students clap rhythm as you read.