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Lesson Plan 17
TOPIC
Name
Subject
Grade Level
Date/Duration
Big Ideas

Essential
Questions
PA/Common
Core/Standards
Objective

Formative &
Summative
Assessment
Evidence
ISTE Standards
for Students
Framework for
21st Century
Learning
Accommodation
s, Modifications
SUPERVISING
TEACHERS
SIGNATURE

DETAILS
Miss Sydney Geyer
ELA- Reading
Fourth Grade
Tuesday, March 1. 2016
Identify elements of poetry: stanza, line break, rhyme,
rhythm, meter, verse
Visualizing is to see something in your mind.
What are the elements of poetry and where can we
find them?
What is visualizing?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.10

CK

Students will be able to use vocabulary to identify

element within a given poem and identify what it
means to visualize.
Informal assessment:
Students actively engage in large group discussion on
identifying element of poetry and visualization and then
work to independently create a completed poem with
visualization.
Creativity and innovation
Research and information fluency
Communication and collaboration
Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making

Packet promotes extensive guiding and prompting in

margins for individuals with learning disabilities.

Seton Hill University Lesson Plan Template Step-by-Step

Procedures
RATIONALE for
the Learning
Plan
Introduction

Explicit
Instructions

CK
Activating Prior Knowledge
Review poetry vocabulary/language (line break, stanza,
rhythm, rhyme, meter, verse)
Hook/Lead-In/Anticipatory Set
Use iPoet poster to review and introduce visualize from
Big Idea Statement
Identify elements of poetry: stanza, line break, rhyme,
rhythm, meter, verse

Lesson
Procedure

Visualizing is to see something in your mind.

Essential Questions Statement
What are the elements of poetry and where can we find
them?
What is visualizing?
Objective Statement
Students will be able to use vocabulary to identify
element within a given poem and identify what it means
to visualize.
Transition
Timer to control time management for appropriate
lesson transitions.
Key Vocabulary
Stanza, line break, rhyme, meter, rhythm, verse,
visualize
PreAssessment of Students
Probing questions on elements of poetry and
visualizing.
Modeling of the Concept
Instruct what it means to visualize- creating mental
images that identify something you have read
Guiding the Practice
Read September: by Helen Hunt Jackson aloud and
discuss visualization
Providing the Independent Practice
Students will use visualizing skill to write a poem
describing a month of their choice.
Transition
Timer to control time management for appropriate
lesson transitions.
Poetry packet p. 88-89
iPoet poster

Reading
Materials
Technology
Equipment
Supplies
Evaluation of
Informal assessment:
the
Students actively engage in large group discussion on
Learning/Master
identifying element of poetry and visualization and then
y of the
work to independently create a completed poem with
Concept
visualization.
Closure
Summary & Review of the Learning
Students will share with classmates and classmates
should be able to share their visualizations and describe
the time of the year and/or the month of their poem.
Homework/Assignments
None
Teacher
Self-reflection