Patterns in Poetry: Rhythm Lesson Plan Information | Lesson Plan Activities | Printable version (including handouts) (PDF)

Standard: Listen Actively Outcomes Students will recognize the link between music and poetry, repeating patterns in poetry--meter, feet, line, and stanza, how rhythm helps organize stressed and unstressed syllables into lines of poetry and how listening for patterns contributes to understanding poetry.

Classroom Information

GED Descriptors:      Language Arts - Reading Roles:      Family, Community Member Program Type(s)      ABE, GED, Urban, Rural, Corrections NRS Learner levels (ABE/GED)       1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Time frame:       Approximately 1 hour Technology Integration Patterns in Poetry Perspectives in American Literature OLRC Poetry Matrix

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Standard: Listen Actively

Component of Performance How activity addresses component Attend to oral information Students will have the opportunity to listen to and understand a variety of poems being read aloud. Clarify purpose for listening and use listening strategies appropriate to that purpose As they apply what they have brainstormed about patterns, students will listen first for repetitions and later for rhythms while listening to the teacher read poems aloud. Monitor comprehension, adjusting listening strategies to overcome barriers to comprehension After listening to the poems, students will read them aloud together to check, expand, and reinforce their listening skills. Reading aloud together removes pressure on low-level readers. Integrate information from listening with prior knowledge to address listening purpose After listening, then reading, learners will discuss how the sound patterns contribute to understanding the poems. Small groups of learners will read a poem aloud to the class, applying what they have learned to help their classmates comprehend through listening. They, in turn, will have the opportunity to listen to a variety of poems being read aloud by their peers.

Purposeful, Transparent, Building Expertise

Purposeful and Transparent Listening and then reading poetry will help students focus on the senses that contribute to enjoyment and understanding of poetry. Since understanding poems will be tested on the Language Arts Section of the GED test, students will have experience listening and reading poetry. Contextual Students can apply their experience with patterns, especially rhythm, to poems. Recognizing patterns is also a critical thinking skill that has applications in everyday life. Listening skills also have application in everyday living. Building Expertise By first listening to a poem and then reading it aloud together, learners reinforce their listening comprehension skills. They develop them further by reading new material aloud to their peers and listening to their peers read aloud to them.

Lesson Designer Connie Sapin Ohio Literacy Resource Center (330) 672-0761 csapin@literacy.kent.edu

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