Poetry Study

A Poetry Study

Author(s):

Dana Larson

Section: 23620


Grade Level:

Grade 3


Timeframe:

The students will be working on learning and writing poetry during writing workshop time. The students will do this every day for about two weeks. The students will get about an hour each day to learn and write about poetry.

Lesson Description or Explanation


The teacher and the students are doing a poetry study during writing workshop. The students will be learning about what makes poetry different from other types of literature. The students will write two to five poems. The students will take one or two of the poems they write during writing workshop and type their final copy on the computer. They will also be allowed to add pictures, interesting font, or color to personalize their poems. The students will each pick one poem that they will put into a slide for the power point presentation. The presentation will be running continuously during the celebration day. The typed poems will be published in a class poetry book.


Indiana Curricular Standards



Language Arts

3.3.1 - Structural Features of Literature: Recognize different common genres (types) of literature, such as poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction

3.4.6 – Evaluation and Revision: Review, evaluate, and revise writing for meaning and clarity


ISTE Standards


1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity: promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness

6. Technology Operations and Concepts: understand and use technology systems.
Assessments

Formative/Summative


Formative:

I will do kidwatching everyday to observe where the students are in their understanding of what a poem is. The students will fill in a K-W-L chart. For pre - assessment the students will fill in what they think they know and what they want to learn. The first two columns on the chart. After the students have looked at poetry for a few days the students will go back and look at the chart again to fill in the learned section.

The students will work on their own and in groups to discuss what they notice about poetry and then they will share their findings with the rest of the group. The teacher will make a list of their noticings.

I will use these observations and the writing on the charts to help guide my instruction and put together mini lessons.


Summative:

The students writing that will be assessed are the poems in the poetry book and the poem in the power point presentation. Each student has a page in the book and a slide in the slide show for individual assessment. Each piece will be graded separately, but count as one project grade.

I will grade by looking to see these things:

- How many poems does the student have (2-5)?
- Does the student have one to two poems typed for the poetry book?
- Does the student have a poem in the power point slide show?
- Did the student try to incorporate the craft of poetry into their writing?
- Are the poems about specific interests to that particular student?
- Does the student’s poem make sense?
- Is the students’ poem authentic?
- Did the student attempted to write poetry?
- Did the student incorporate some of what was taught during mini lessons into their writing?
- How much creativity did the student use?

There will be a rubric handed out to the students for this assignment, so they know how they are being assessed. It will include all the questions listed above.




Prior Knowledge

Curricular Knowledge or Skills:

A pre-assessment will be asking the students if anyone knows what a poem is. I will write what they say on chart paper to be able to compare to what they say a poem is later. The students will fill in a K-W-L chart. For pre - assessment the students will fill in what they think they know and what they want to learn. The first two columns on the chart.

Students will need to know how to write a poem, or are in the process of learning how to writing poems.

Technology Knowledge:

Students need to understand how to use Microsoft Word and Microsoft Power Point. The students also need to understand how to use the internet.


Technology


Internet Resources: (please list URLs)

http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/home.do

Hardware:

Computers with internet excess

Software:

Microsoft Word
Microsoft Power Point

Procedure


Day 1,2, and 3:
- Immersion
- Children will come to the carpet. Teacher will read aloud a poem each day, starting with their mentor poet.
- Books will be spread out on tables.
- After the read aloud the students will read poetry books and notice what makes poetry what it is.
- Day two or three, the students will go to the computer lab and look on a children’s poetry website to read more poems (http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/home.do).
- The students will come together to discuss what they noticed about poetry.
- Teacher will be writing down a list of what the students say about poetry. So the class can refer to it through the whole poetry study.
- The students will revisit the K-W-L chart and fill in the last column about what they learned.
- By day three, the students can share lines of poems they like or do a choral reading.
- The students will be given folders to keep their poetry in.


Day 4 and 5:
- The students will come to the carpet. Teacher will read aloud a poem.
- The students will continue their investigation of poetry and come back and review what they noticed about poetry.
- The students will start to think about how poets write their poems. What does a good poet do? What makes poems different? What about them interests you?
- We will start a deep investigation about poetry.
- The students will pick out one or two poems to use as a guide for writing their poems.
- The poetry books will be available.

Day 6:
- The students will come to the carpet. Teacher will read aloud a poem.
- The students will continue their investigations about poetry.
- The students will start to try to write poetry.
- The students will brain storm and pre-write.
- The poetry books will be available.

Day 7, 8, and 9:
- The students will come to the carpet. Teacher will read aloud a poem.
- The students will move from pre-writing to writing their poems.
- The students may share poems that they have written in an author’s circle.
- The poetry books will be available.

Day 10 and 11:
- The students will come to the carpet. Teacher will read aloud a poem.
- The students will be finishing up writing their poems.
- The students will edit their poems.
- The students will be typing their final drafts for one or two poems on the computer.
- The students will put one of their poems on a power point slide for the group power point presentation.
- The teacher will collect the typed poems of the students to be put into a class poetry book.

Day 12:
- Celebration, which will be a poetry reading.

Differentiated
Instruction

ESL

The students may use the translation tool in Google, www.worldlingo.com, or http://babelfish.altavista.com/ to help change their words into English. The students can also write the poem in Spanish and I can translate it. The final copies of the student’s poems can be represented in Spanish and English in the class poetry book. In the class book there will be a copy of the poem in Spanish and in English.


Challenge/Extend


The students that get ahead of the other students in the class can publish more than two poems. They can work on back up work, like writing in their writer’s notebooks. They will also be allowed to do a power point presentation with one of their poems. The students will take one of their poems and illustrate each line in Microsoft Power Point. The students will then be allowed to share their power point with the class.


Special Needs


Depending on the severity of the disability the computer can be modified to accommodate a specific need a student has. The Microsoft Easy of Access Center allows changes to be made, so the computer will be easier to use. There are tools that make the computer hands free or make text bigger. Also, the student’s poem may only be a few words, but have many pictures. The poem will take the shape of what the student is capable of doing. The poem may also be hand written. I can always take the poem and type it for the student, so the student’s poem is included in the class poetry book.