Writing poetry with rebus and rhyme
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A lesson plan for grades K–1 English Language Arts
This ReadWriteThink lesson uses Jean Marzollo’s book I Love You: A Rebus Poem (Scholastic, 2000) as a model to use rebus writing to create wonderful poetry; however, any of the rebus books included on the accompanying book list would be appropriate for this activity. Rebus, writing which substitutes images for words in the text, is a well-known technique used by authors to write books for young readers able to identify only a limited number of words.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 1
- Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
- Objective 1.02: Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies and skills:
- generate the sounds from all the letters and appropriate letter patterns which should include consonant blends and long and short vowel patterns.
- use phonics knowledge of sound-letter relationships to decode regular one-syllable words when reading words and text.
- recognize many high frequency and/or common irregularly spelled words in text (e.g., have said, where, two).
- read compound words and contractions.
- read inflectional forms (e.g., -s, -ed, -ing) and root words (e.g., looks, looked, looking).
- read appropriate word families.
- Objective 1.04: Self-monitor decoding by using one or two decoding strategies (e.g., beginning letters, rimes, length of word, ending letters).
- Objective 1.02: Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies and skills:
Kindergarten
- Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies to read and write.
- Objective 1.02: Develop phonemic awareness and knowledge of alphabetic principle:
- demonstrate understanding that spoken language is a sequence of identifiable speech sounds.
- demonstrate understanding that the sequence of letters in the written word represents the sequence of sounds in the spoken word.
- demonstrate understanding of the sounds of letters and understanding that words begin and end alike (onsets and rimes).
- Objective 1.04: Read or begin to read.
- Read or attempt to read own dictated story.
- Attempt to read/reads simple patterned text, decodable text, and/or predictable texts using letter-sound knowledge and pictures to construct meaning.
- Objective 1.02: Develop phonemic awareness and knowledge of alphabetic principle:
