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Five Senses Poetry Fourth Grade. Donna Daniel Jamila Johnson ECED 4300 A Dr. Tonja Root. Jamila Johnson. ECED 4300 C Dr. Tonya Root Fall 2007 Fourth Grade Five Senses Poetry Prewriting. Prewriting: Five Senses Poetry. A creative way to write poetry using the five senses.
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Five Senses PoetryFourth Grade Donna Daniel Jamila Johnson ECED 4300 A Dr. Tonja Root
Jamila Johnson ECED 4300 C Dr. Tonya Root Fall 2007 Fourth Grade Five Senses Poetry Prewriting
Prewriting: Five Senses Poetry • A creative way to write poetry using the five senses. • Use your five senses (hear, smell, taste, look and feel) to describe a topic, emotion or idea. • Prewriting is the “getting ready to write stage.” You will brainstorm your ideas and then write them on paper. • Choose a Topic • Complete Graphic Organizer
Example #1 Rain Rain is clear It tastes like water It sounds like pounding on your windows It smells like fresh pine trees It looks like dew drops on plants It makes me feel cool Renz, Hillary (2007). My poetry book. Retrieved November 12, 2007, Web site: http://www.redmond.k12.or.us/mccall/renz/pdf/poetrydir05.pdf
Example #2 Spring In spring I see green leaves. In spring I hear blue jays calling. In spring I feel warm again. In spring I taste pink lemonade. In spring I smell cherry blossoms. McGowan, Marcie (2005). Colorful spring. Retrieved November 12, 2007, from Colorful Spring Resources Web site: http://www.mrsmcgowan.com/colorful_spring/resources.htm#Senses
Practice Activity • Show graphic organizer to students. • Ask for class to brainstorm and come up with sample topics together. • Choose a topic that is shared with all the students in the class. • Complete graphic organizer
Assessment • Allow the students to choose their own topic to complete the graphic organizer • Assess the graphic organizer for completion • Was all the information provided on the graphic organizer related to the topic? • Were all five senses used?
Donna Daniel ECED 4300 A Dr. Tonja Root Fall 2007 Fourth Grade Five Senses Poetry Drafting
Drafting: Five Senses Poetry • Five Senses Poetry • Each sense should be one line • Five senses poems are usually about five to six lines long, it can be longer. • Depends on the amount of detail you include for each sense • Drafting • Student will use graphic organizer to form complete sentences.
Practice Activity • Students will use the topic that was chosen during the prewriting stage to create their own draft • A five senses poem will be constructed as a class, using the graphic organizer. • Ideas will be written in complete sentences, with each sense being a separate line.
Assessment • Student will write a five-senses poem on their own, using the graphic organizer. • Did the student’s poem use all five senses? • Did each line of the poem focus on a different sense?