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   View Standards     Standard(s): [ELA2021] (3) 11 :
11. Read and reread grade-appropriate poetry, practicing phrasing, rhythm, rhyme, and meaningful expression.
[ELA2021] (3) 3 :
3. Apply oral literacy skills by participating in a variety of oral language activities.

Examples: plays, dramas, choral readings, oral reports
Subject: English Language Arts (3)
Title: Learning Poetry With the Snowbird: Part 1
Description:

This introductory activity will introduce students to poetry terms such as phrasing, rhythm, rhyme, and meaningful expression. The teacher will read a poem aloud to the students to demonstrate the application of these poetry terms.

This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.




   View Standards     Standard(s): [ELA2021] (3) 11 :
11. Read and reread grade-appropriate poetry, practicing phrasing, rhythm, rhyme, and meaningful expression.
[ELA2021] (3) 3 :
3. Apply oral literacy skills by participating in a variety of oral language activities.

Examples: plays, dramas, choral readings, oral reports
Subject: English Language Arts (3)
Title: Learning Poetry With the Snowbird: Part 2
Description:

In this activity, students will engage in a shared reading of the poem, "The Snowbird's Song," annotating the text to identify phrases, rhythm, rhyme, and areas to apply a meaningful expression.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.




   View Standards     Standard(s): [ELA2021] (3) 19 :
19. Determine the explicit or implied main idea and supporting details of a text.

a. Explain how supporting details contribute to the main idea, using textual evidence.

b. Recount or summarize the key ideas from the text.

[ELA2021] (3) 11 :
11. Read and reread grade-appropriate poetry, practicing phrasing, rhythm, rhyme, and meaningful expression.
Subject: English Language Arts (3)
Title: Learning Poetry With the Snowbird: Part 3
Description:

In this activity, students will read a familiar poem with appropriate phrasing, rhythm, and meaningful expression. In addition, students will identify the main idea and details within the poem, using text evidence to support their answers when completing the question set included with the text on ReadWorks. 

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.




ALEX Learning Activities: 3

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ALEX Classroom Resources  
   View Standards     Standard(s): [ELA2021] (3) 11 :
11. Read and reread grade-appropriate poetry, practicing phrasing, rhythm, rhyme, and meaningful expression.
[ELA2021] (3) 18 :
18. Demonstrate content knowledge built during independent reading of informational and literary texts by participating in content-specific discussions with peers and/or through writing.
[ELA2021] (3) 42 :
42. Write poetry or prose in response to visual images to interpret their meanings.
[ELA2021] (4) 25 :
25. Explain how the form of a poem contributes to its meaning.
[ELA2021] (4) 32 :
32. Respond in writing to literature and informational text, including stories, dramas, poetry, and cross-curricular texts, both independently and with support, demonstrating grade-level proficiency.
[ELA2021] (5) 5 :
5. Demonstrate fluency when independently reading, writing, and speaking in response to grade-level literary and informational text, including stories, dramas, poetry, and cross-curricular texts.
[ELA2021] (5) 32 :
32. Respond in writing to literature and informational text, including stories, dramas, poetry, and cross-curricular texts, independently and with grade-level proficiency.
Subject: English Language Arts (3 - 5)
Title: Creating Classroom Community by Crafting Themed Poetry Collections
URL: http://readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/creating-classroom-community-crafting-391.html
Description:

Students begin by brainstorming types of poetry, then examining themed poetry collections to find examples. They create a working definition of poetry that they will revisit throughout the unit. Next students reexamine the collections, identifying what the poems have in common and generating a list of characteristics of thematic poetry collections. Students then begin work on their own poetry collection. In each session, they read, analyze, and write a different form of poetry, including diamante, cinquain, 5W, Bio, I Am, Name, Acrostic, Limerick, and Two-Voice poems. In some forms, they write about themselves, and for others, they interview and write about a classmate, but all the poems follow the theme of "getting to know each other". Throughout the process, students complete a checklist to organize and track what they learn about poetry forms and elements of poetry. Graphic organizers are included for each poetic form.



   View Standards     Standard(s): [ELA2021] (3) -3 :
R3. Expand background knowledge and build vocabulary through discussion, reading, and writing.
[ELA2021] (3) 11 :
11. Read and reread grade-appropriate poetry, practicing phrasing, rhythm, rhyme, and meaningful expression.
[ELA2021] (4) 5 :
5. Demonstrate fluency when reading grade-level text and when responding through writing or speaking.
[ELA2021] (4) 25 :
25. Explain how the form of a poem contributes to its meaning.
[ELA2021] (4) 26 :
26. Analyze how rhythm and rhyme in poetry contribute to meaning.
[ELA2021] (5) 5 :
5. Demonstrate fluency when independently reading, writing, and speaking in response to grade-level literary and informational text, including stories, dramas, poetry, and cross-curricular texts.
[ELA2021] (5) 6 :
6. Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, automaticity, appropriate prosody or expression, purpose, and understanding, self-correcting and rereading as necessary.
Subject: English Language Arts (3 - 5)
Title: Earth Verse: Using Science in Poetry
URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/earth-verse-using-science-1141.html
Description:

This lesson is a great way to teach both scientific and English content to a class, although the teacher can easily choose another book and subject area. In this lesson, students listen to poems in the book Science Verse by Jon Scieszka. Students then create diamante, acrostic, or theme poems with illustrations. To help increase fluency, students read their poems to the class. Finally, students create original poems using facts they have learned in the current science curriculum.



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