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Lesson Plan 16
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Grade Level
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Big Ideas

Essential
Questions

PA/Common
Core/Standards
Objective
Formative &
Summative
Assessment
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ISTE Standards
for Students
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21st Century
Learning
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s, Modifications

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Miss Sydney Geyer
ELA- Reading
Fourth Grade
Monday, February 28, 2016
Poems can be rhyming or non-rhyming.
Poems have verses and stanzas.
Poems often use vivid vocabulary.
What is a rhyming poem?
What is a non-rhyming poem?
What is a verse?
What is a stanza?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.10

CK

Students will be able to identify and compose a

rhyming or non-rhyming poem that has three stanzas.

Informal Assessment:
Students actively engage in group poem writing and
submit one poem per group of 4 students.

Creativity and innovation

Research and information fluency
Communication and collaboration
Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making

Graphic organizers and interactive posters provided in

the classroom will help to prompt and guide learners
and differentiate the instruction.

SUPERVISING
TEACHERS
SIGNATURE

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Procedures
RATIONALE for
the Learning
Plan
Introduction

Explicit
Instructions

CK
Activating Prior Knowledge
Hook/Lead-In/Anticipatory Set

Big Idea Statement

Poems can be rhyming or non-rhyming.
Poems have verses and stanzas.

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Procedure

Poems often use vivid vocabulary.

Essential Questions Statement
What is a rhyming poem?
What is a non-rhyming poem?
What is a verse?
What is a stanza?
Objective Statement
Students will be able to identify and compose a rhyming
or non-rhyming poem that has three stanzas.
Transition
Timer to control time management for appropriate
lesson transitions.
Key Vocabulary
Rhyme
Verse
Stanza
PreAssessment of Students
Probing questions about previous poetry lessons and
review of rhyming and non-rhyming.
Modeling of the Concept
Students already wrote paragraph on nature using
spelling words. Sample poems will be provided to see
examples of how to set of verses and stanzas from the
paragraph.
Guiding the Practice
I will assist in the creation of verses and stanzas on the
Mimeo
Providing the Independent Practice
Students will work in groups of 4 to create their own
poems from their prewritten paragraphs.
Transition
Timer to control time management for appropriate
lesson transitions.
Spelling list
iPoet poster
Rhyming and Non-Rhyming poster
Lined paper

Reading
Materials
Technology
Equipment
Supplies
Evaluation of
Informal Assessment:
the
Students actively engage in group poem writing and
Learning/Master
submit one poem per group of 4 students.
y of the
Concept
Closure
Summary & Review of the Learning
Several groups will share there poems discussing how
many verses and stanzas and identifying the rhyme
scheme.
Homework/Assignments
None

Teacher
Self-reflection