Exploring Line Breaks in Free Verse Poetry
FIRST PLEASE READ CHAPTER 4 IN YOUR TEXTBOOK; HIGHLIGHT KEY POINTS AND LEARN ALL YOU CAN FROM IT. Then, complete the following to extend your understanding and stretch your thinking:
1. Read the lesson on page 138: Teaching Idea 4.1 Break It Up! Exploring Line Breaks in Free Verse Poetry. What are the strengths and weaknesses of this lesson? How would you change it to meet the needs of your students (or a grade level you would like to teach if you are not currently teaching)?PLEASE MAKE FIT FOR 2ND GRADERS
2. Where (title of Teaching Idea box and page #) do your textbook authors describe Choral Reading in this chapter and what is YOUR understanding of this approach, after reading theirs? Why do teachers need to know about this literacy approach? What do the authors suggest for Choral Reading using Multiple Voices?
3.What is the definition of Haiku (see page 149)? Make a Haiku up as if you were going to demonstrate one to kids so they would know what it is.
4. What is the Teaching Idea 4.3 (page 155), Fifteen Minutes, Fifty Poems! all about? Describe this approach in your own words and then tell what you think of it. Would it work with your students? Why or why not?
5. Find one poet and one of his/her poems and type it out. How would you use this particular poem with students and what do you want them to know and be able to do after you have used it?
Have a great week, everyone! Learn….and grow
DISCUSSION 2 2-PAGES
Please read Chapters 5 and 6 in your course textbook. You will learn about folklore, fables, storytelling, fantasy, and science fiction. Your students (or future students) are counting on you to read these chapters so you will be BETTER at exposing them, teaching them, and using them within your classroom instruction, no matter what grade you teach! If you aren’t teaching right now, you still need to know what’s in these chapters. You may be surprised to find things that your own teachers never exposed you to! Now is your chance…..don’t miss this opportunity to learn and grow.
Then…..respond to the following topics.
1. What is FOLKLORE? How would you explain what it is, to kids?
2. Briefly describe the following patterns in folklore:
(a) Conventions
(b) Motifs
(c) Themes
2. Select three types of folklore, as listed above and described in Chapter 5. For each of the three you choose, describe one activity for teaching BOTH (a) decoding/phonics skills and (b) comprehension skills. Be sure to tell us THE GRADE LEVEL you are gearing your activities for. In total, you will describe 6 activities using 3 types of folklore.
3. In Chapter 6, what do our textbooks authors mean by the term, FANTASTIC LITERATURE?
4. Briefly describe the following Fantastic Literature Qualities:
(a) Setting
(b) Plot
(c) Characters
(d) Style
(d) Theme
5. What are the key differences between Fantasy & Science Fiction? Give examples of titles in each category. Why do kids need to be exposed to both types?