Dena Sommers

CHD 119: Introduction to Reading Methods

Poem Activity Lesson Plan Format
Follow the exact format listed below. No other format will be accepted!
Age Level or Grade Level of the students:
Grade K/1st
Title of the Poem: Ears
Author: Max Fatchen
Illustrator: Meilo So
Have you thought to give three cheers
For the usefulness of ears?
Ears will often spring surprises
Coming in such different sizes.
Ears are crinkled, even folded.
Ears turn pink when you are scolded.
Ears can have the oddest habits
Standing rather straight on rabbits.
Ears are little tape-recorders
Catching all the family orders.
Words, according to your mother,
Go in one and out the other.
Each side of your head you'll find them.
Don't forget to wash behind them.
Precious little thanks they'll earn you
Hearing things that don't concern you.
Phonics Element or Word Study Activity:
State the phonics element - Phonological Awareness/Rhyming
Explain the activity in step-by-step instructions. What will the teacher do? What will the students
do?
1. Children will sing along to the song "Do Your Ears Hang Low" as the teacher leads. The
teacher will be facing the children and lead them along to the song.
2. Teacher will review with the children rhymes in the poem and discuss rhyming words that
they must have the same sound but they aren't always spelled the same way. Teacher will talk
about the first 2-4 lines of the poem and how they rhyme together and the sounds.
3. Teacher will give children cut lines of the poem and the children have to match up the
rhyming words from the poem to recreate the rhyming lines.
4. Teacher will give children the following on paper squares word "at" and "m, n, b, etc.." for the
children to add to make a word and rhyming ones.

Material List:
The materials I will use will be a song, strips of the poem, and word at and letters.