Hunter’s Lesson Plan Model

Teacher Name​:​ Olivia Rettig, Makayla Hobbs, Madi Johnson, Kathy Escobar

Lesson Title/Content Area​: ​T-K Intro to Poetry

Objectives​: ​What will the student be able to do/understand as a result of the lesson?
Students will have a general understanding of what poetry is and how to recognize it.

Standards​: ​What type of lesson/procedures followed/behavioral expectations.

RSLTK1: With prompting and support answer questions about details in a text.
RFSTK2: Recognize rhyming words.

Anticipatory Set​:​ “Hook”/Relate experiences/focus attention.

Read Barnyard Dance.
Ask if there was anything special about the book. What made it special? (Rhyming, Rhythm, Has
feeling)
Say: This silly book is special because it is a piece of poetry!!! Today, we are going to explore
what poetry is. There are so many different kinds of poems, and I’m sure you will all know a lot
of them!

Teacher Input​: ​Provides information needed for students to gain knowledge through lecture, video, pictures,
song, thinking map, etc.
Say: Poetry is a kind of writing that makes you imagine things and feel deep emotions and
sometimes makes you laugh. The poet (the person that makes poems) chooses words that have
sounds cool, means something important, and even rhymes sometimes. They can be short or long
My Teacher Calls Me Sweetie Cakes video (3 min)
Say:This poem made me laugh!Poems can be funny and rhyme and make you laugh, too.
Feelings Song for Children by the Learning Station (4 min)
Ask: What did that make you feel? Poems can make you feel different ways
Explain that poems can be found everywhere
Read Psalms 23

Teacher Modeling​: ​Uses material to show students examples of what is expected. Label, compare, etc. Take
students to application level- problem solving.
TRANSITION TO CARPET
Read I have a Little Frog poem
Sing Away in A Manger
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
Nursery rhymes
Sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (With hand motions)

Teacher check for understanding​: ​Students practice alongside teacher-do they “Have it?
What is a poem? What do poems makes you feel? What was your favorite poem we read?:

Guided Practice​: ​Each student demonstrates grasp of learning- work through an activity under teacher’s
supervision.
Do a closing activity such as a Color Poem all together. Have students agree on a color and ask
for what things can be that color. What makes _____?
Use purple as an example:
Grape Sweet smooth grape
Sweater Cozy soft sweater
Shoes Shiny new shoes

Say: To make it more interesting, we are going to add more words to it.

Ask: How does a grape taste? What does a sweater feel like? What about shoes?
Add on words to the color that students say.
Reread poem.

Closure​:​ Form a coherent picture of the content. Reinforce major points learned. Clarify key points.
Go back and discuss bits and pieces of what was taught. Ask them what they remember and
emphasize each main point of poetry once more.
Did they recognize rhyming words in all poems read?
Discuss poem just created and ask if it rhymed? What did it make them feel? Can you imagine
the poem? Does it make you laugh, is it silly?

Say: Poetry is different than a story because it has fewer words and it even creates a picture in
your mind. Sometimes it’ll rhyme but it won’t always. Like our color poem, it didn’t rhyme but
it is still a poem. They can be as silly or just make you feel a lot of different ways. Remember,
poems can even be found everywhere! In a color, the bible, etc.

Independent practice​:​ ​Homework/group or individual work in class.

Have the kids each draw a picture about their favorite emotions and tie it into how poetry is
about strong emotions. Then since the classroom is small we can have each kid share what they
drew and tell us about their emotions.

Materials​:
Blank paper
Drawing supplies
Book Barnyard Dance
My Teacher Calls Me Sweetie Cakes video
Feelings Song for Children by the Learning Station
Psalms 23
I have a Little Frog poem

Duration​: 45 min