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Standard: Speak So Others Can Understand Outcomes Students will practice listening for sounds (phonemic awareness), play with sound letter correspondence, and recognize repeated end-rhymes (rhyme scheme), repeated vowels (assonance) and repeated consonants (alliteration).

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:       1 hour Technology Integration Patterns in Poetry

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Standard: Speak So Others Can Understand

Component of Performance How activity addresses component Determine the purpose for communicating By listening to distinctive sounds and attempting to reproduce them in words, students will recognize and practice the sound-letter correspondence employed by poets in onomatopoeia to communicate senses, motion, and feelings. Organize and relay information to effectively serve the purpose, context, and listener By listening and reading poems aloud, students will study how poets organize their ideas using rhyme scheme and stanzas. Pay attention to conventions of oral English communication, including grammar, word choice, register, pace and gesture in order to minimize barriers to listener's comprehension Again by listening and reading poems aloud, students will examine the poets' use of assonance and alliteration to link words and to communicate emotions that are important in understanding a poem. Use multiple strategies to monitor the effectiveness of the communication In addition to listening, reading aloud, and discussion, students will apply what they have learned by reading aloud a poem to the class and talking about how the uses of sound contribute to the understanding the poet wants to communicate to the reader.

Purposeful, Transparent, Building Expertise

Purposeful and Transparent Listen and reading aloud poetry will help students see how poets use sound to convey emotion and to organize their work by linking sounds at the ends of lines and by linking important words through repetition of vowels and consonants. Contextual By recognizing the use of sounds in poetry, students may begin to recognize the use and impact of the sounds in the words in the world around them--lyrics, ads, TV, and movies. Building Expertise In a process of listening, then reading, and finally speaking, students progress in their recognition of how sound is used to organize and communicate meaning to readers of poetry.

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

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