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What is Poetry?

In this lesson, students will learn about the features of a book and review the poem "The Swing" by Robert Louis Stevenson. They will then use illustrations and questions to visualize the poem and create their own illustrations. This activity targets listening skills, understanding of poetry, and the ability to illustrate a poem.

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What is Poetry?

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  1. What is Poetry? “The Swing” by Robert Louis Stevenson Anne Saullo Mrs. Magarin’s Kindergarten Grace Hill Elementary December 2014

  2. GoalI can listen to and illustrate a poem. Students score their understanding of the goal. Standards: RL.K.1, RL.K.5, SL.K.1, SL.K.5

  3. Access Prior Knowledge Show students copies of books they are familiar with and review the features of a book. • Front Cover • Back Cover • Title Page

  4. New Information Read the poem,“The Swing” by Robert Louis Stevenson to students. • After reading, point out: • Lines • Stanzas • Rhyming Words

  5. Use the illustrations and questions to help students visualize the poem. Explicitly model illustrating the first stanza of the poem. Where? Who? How? What?

  6. Application Tell students that they will ask and answer questions in order to illustrate the poem, “The Swing,” so others can visualize or see the poem in their heads.

  7. The poem now has illustrations!

  8. Once students complete their illustration for the wall, they can illustrate their own copy of “The Swing” to put in their poetry folder.

  9. Score students ability to illustrate a poem. (SL.K.5)

  10. GoalI can listen to and illustrate a poem. Students score their understanding of the goal. Standards: RL.K.1, RL.K.5, SL.K.1, SL.K.5

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