This unit plan outlines a 5-week poetry unit for grade 3 students. Students will understand that poetry expresses feelings and reflections through creative use of language and sensory details. They will learn about different poetic forms and techniques for crafting meaning. To assess understanding, students will create an initial poem and later write, share, and critique original poems with peers in various forms. Learning activities include analyzing sample poems, using graphic organizers to understand poetic elements, and crafting different styles of poems to develop expression.
This unit plan outlines a 5-week poetry unit for grade 3 students. Students will understand that poetry expresses feelings and reflections through creative use of language and sensory details. They will learn about different poetic forms and techniques for crafting meaning. To assess understanding, students will create an initial poem and later write, share, and critique original poems with peers in various forms. Learning activities include analyzing sample poems, using graphic organizers to understand poetic elements, and crafting different styles of poems to develop expression.
This unit plan outlines a 5-week poetry unit for grade 3 students. Students will understand that poetry expresses feelings and reflections through creative use of language and sensory details. They will learn about different poetic forms and techniques for crafting meaning. To assess understanding, students will create an initial poem and later write, share, and critique original poems with peers in various forms. Learning activities include analyzing sample poems, using graphic organizers to understand poetic elements, and crafting different styles of poems to develop expression.
This unit plan outlines a 5-week poetry unit for grade 3 students. Students will understand that poetry expresses feelings and reflections through creative use of language and sensory details. They will learn about different poetic forms and techniques for crafting meaning. To assess understanding, students will create an initial poem and later write, share, and critique original poems with peers in various forms. Learning activities include analyzing sample poems, using graphic organizers to understand poetic elements, and crafting different styles of poems to develop expression.
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Unit Planner Grade 3 Date: 1st Oct.
2015 Unit length: 5 weeks
Stage 1 Desired Results Established Goals: Learners will develop an understanding that poetry is a creative channel of communication that is used to achieve a range of social purposes. Conceptual Understandings: Essential Questions: Students will understand that . . . What is poetry for? Poetry expresses feelings and reflections on experiences, people What are some different forms and and events characteristics of poetry? Poetry works mainly through our emotions, sensory experiences and imaginative perceptions How are feelings and reflections (best) The poets choices of words and order expressed through poems? of words enhances meaning in the poem Students will know . . .(Knowledge) Students will be able to . . . (Skills) forms and characteristics (including Respond to poems by observing, powerful words, word choice) of interpreting and creating their own poems poem based on their personal reaction and interpretation that people respond to and interpret Compose poems, containing: poems differently o Purpose, structure and language features that are appropriate to the poem type that poetry can be used to express selected (couplet, quatrain, diamante, palindrome) personal feelings and reflections o Word choices and word order that enhance the meaning of their poem Stage 2 Assessment Evidence Pre-Assessment: Students create an independent poem of their choice. (Prior to being given any input on poetry). Performance Tasks: Other Evidence: Students create and respond to original Discussions of different kinds of poems poems (can be tied to a piece of art). They and possible meanings (response/ will write and record a poem of their own, interpretation) and swap their poem with a peer. Students Sharing own poems with the class will deliver their poem in front of an (creation/expression of meaning) audience. Moderation of assessment: within grade and cross grade with grade 2 Stage 3 Learning Plan Learning Activities: (include differentiation) Students use NSW samples and Writing Fun samples to experience and understand poetic forms Use of graphic organizers to analyze and to create poems (Analyze a Poem to Write a Poem) Reading and listening to poems written by poets Envelope poetry Creating poems to music and art pieces As Soon as Its Fall by Aileen Fischer poem with cloze activity Reconstruction of cut up couplets and quatrains, diamante and palindromes Reading and performing poems of their own, and favourite poems by poets Building up word banks that can be used when writing poetry Reflection: