BOOK EXTENSION ACTIVITY - LESSON PLAN

Your Name: Heather Jun Genre of the Book:

Poetry

Book Title: Where the Sidewalk Ends Author: Richard Byrne

Publisher: Harper Collins Publisher Date: 1974

1. Pre-K/ CCSD K-2nd Grade Core Standards: 2nd Grade

Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply
rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

2. Objectives:
Students will be able to create their own poem and describe how the words and phrases give
rhythms and meaning to a poem.

3. Materials/Equipment:
Book- Where the Sidewalk Ends
Blooms Level (SWBAT)
Poem Worksheet
Rhyme Hunt Powerpoint

4. Teaching:
A. Reading the book:
o Introduce and read the book, Where the Sidewalk Ends to the class.
o The teacher will read the poems, Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the
Garbage Out, Running Giraffe, and Ickle me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me, Too.

B. Extension Activity:
o The teacher will ask the students to raise their hand and tell which of the three
poems was their favorite.
o The teacher will talk about the two different types of poems that were read.
o The teacher will explain that a lyric poem is songlike. A lyric poem has rhyme
and rhythm, it is descriptive, and it focuses on “personal moments or feelings or
image-laden scenes.”
o The teacher will explain that a concrete poem is written in the shape representing
the poem’s subject, just like the giraffe.
o The teacher will ask the students to raise their hand and describe how the words
 and phrases in the poems read give rhythms and meaning to the poem.
o The teacher will introduce Rhyme Hunt. The teacher will print out the papers
from the power point and put slide one paper on the projector.
o The teacher will explain to the students that he/she will say different words and
the students will find an object to touch or point to in the room that rhymes with
the word said by the teacher.
o The teacher will read the words from the second slide to the students.
o After the Rhyme Hunt, the teacher will give the poem extension activity paper to
each student.
o The teacher will explain that they will be writing a lyric poem.
o The student will write the title at the top, write their own poem, and draw a
picture at the bottom of the paper to show what the poem is about.

5. Closure:
To wrap up this activity, the teacher will ask the students who would like to come to the front of
the class to share their poem and drawing. After the students have finished sharing, she will let
them know that there are more types of poems such as limericks, which are five lines and only
certain lines rhyme, and narrative poems, which are poems that tell stories.