K-2+Text+Types+T4+2012

8th October || **__Learning this term:__ poetry** __**expectations:**__ **over the term they will learn how to write different types of poems and create their own.** - Question: what is poetry, where do you hear poetry? What types of poetry are there? - The teacher reads the poem : “ Mary had a little lamb”. Discuss what did you hear and feel. What types of language were used. Who was talking in the poem. Discuss if the poem rhymed why or why not. - Put the poem up on the board. Discuss what you can see. - Hand the poem out to the students and get them to read along in unison. - The teacher reads the poem ‘Dinosaurs”. Do the same as above. Discuss the differences between the two poems. - Question the students; what are nursery rhymes? What are they used for? Do you think they are poems why or why not? - Read aloud a nursery rhyme. Hand out a copy to the students. Get them to read in unison. Work out hand movements or clapping/stomping to match the rhyming. __Poems:__ 1. Mary had a little lamb Its fleece was white as snow And everywhere that mary went The lamb was sure to go He followed her to school one day That was against the rule It made the children laugh and __#|play__ To see a lamb at school. 2. Dinosaurs Lived once Long ago, but Only dust and dreams Remain. __Nursery rhymes:__ 1. Round and round the garden Like a teddy bear One step Two steps Tickle you under there 2. Hickory dickory dock The mouse ran up the clock The clock struck one The mouse ran down Hickory dickory dock. || 15th October || Discuss: - What is poetry? - What type of poetry did we look at last week? (nursery rhymes) Tell the students today we are going to look at number rhymes. Discuss: - What are number rhymes? - Do you know any number rhymes? - Give the students an example- five little ducks. - Question- what are their purpose? Who would say them? Who are they designed for? Read over the following number poems to the students and then as a class. - Get the students to practise them in small groups and present them to the class. 1. Five little ducks 2. Three blind mice 3. 1,2,3,4,5 4. Ten in the bed. - Get students to make their own number poem in small groups. They can either use a known poem and change the words of create their own. || 22nd October || Tell the students the next two weeks we will be looking at chants. - Discuss: what are chants,what features do they have and their purpose. It uses rhythm and rhyme in an enjoyable way. It provides patterns that can make learning easier. It builds children's confidence in oral language. It can promote a sense of community, which is conducive to learning. It provides a change of pace and mood to improve student motivation. It offers opportunities  for repeated readings, which build fluency. - As a class sing the following two chants and do the actions. 1. [] 2. [] - Discuss what makes a good chant and form a class assessment marking criteria. - Get students to make their own chants in pairs. Students can either do the bear hunt and change it or make their own from scratch || 29th October || Discuss; - what are chants? - what chants did we practise last week? - how can you write a chant? Put up the marking criteria developed last week and discuss.
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Students can __#|continue__ to write and practise their chant. || 5th November || **Acrostic** Discuss; what are acrostic poems? how do we write one? what topics can we write them about? - show the students examples of acrostic poems. - Create an acrostic poem as a class on the smart board (about the class) using the following website. - The students then write an acrostic poem about themself. [] || 12th November || **Acrostic** Discuss: - What are acrostic poems? - What topics can we write them about? As a class write a ru brick for marking poems. Students are too choose their own topic. They have to write an acrostic poem on their topic in their book. They are then going to get a picture of their topic and write each letter and sentence in specific parts. Examples of this are: [], [] If time permits students can self mark their own work using the rubric. || 19th November || **Acrostic Poems** - Get students to finish their acrostic poems. (They started these last week. I think all have finished writing and some have started to decorate theirs- the decorations should be loose in their text type books and Bodies should be under his desk. The writing should be in their books) - Once finished they can self mark their work (we made the rubric last week as a class) - If finished and there is still time they can choose another topic to write a poem on. || 26th November || **S1- Cinquain** 3rd December || **S1- Cinquain** 10th December || **S1- Catalogue poetry** 17th December || **S1- Catalogue poetry****ES1- revision** ||
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