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A bear of a poem: Composing and performing found poetry

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A lesson plan for Grades K–1 English Language Arts

Provider: IRA/NCTE

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Appropriate grades
K–1
Subjects
English language arts (listening comprehension, writing)
Provider
IRA/NCTE

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Following a read-aloud of one of the Berenstain Bears books, the teacher challenges students to extract words from the text in order to create a collaborative class poem, which students perform for an audience. This lesson focuses on “found” poetry, which is a type of poem created by taking words and phrases from a text and arranging them into a poetic structure. Lesson provides examples of “found”poems, graphic organizers, and assessment rubrics.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

  • Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
    • Objective 2.02: Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of texts (storybooks, short chapter books, newspapers, telephone books, and everyday print such as signs and labels, poems, word plays using alliteration and rhyme, skits and short plays).
  • Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
    • Objective 4.05: Write and/or participate in writing by using an author's model of language and extending the model (e.g., writing different ending for a story, composing an innovation of a poem).
    • Objective 4.06: Compose a variety of products (e.g., stories, journal entries, letters, response logs, simple poems, oral retellings).

Kindergarten

  • Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
    • Objective 2.01: Demonstrate sense of story (e.g., beginning, middle, end, characters, details).
    • Objective 2.02: Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of types of books and selections (e.g., picture books, caption books, short informational texts, nursery rhymes, word plays/finger plays, puppet plays, reenactments of familiar stories).
    • Objective 2.09: Identify the sequence of events in a story.
  • Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
    • Objective 4.01: Use new vocabulary in own speech and writing.
    • Objective 4.02: Use words that name and words that tell action in a variety of simple texts (e.g., oral retelling, written stories, lists, journal entries of personal experiences).
    • Objective 4.06: Write and/or participate in writing behaviors by using authors' models of language.