Below are the links for the Grade 4 poetry resources. To access them, use your Mamaroneck login (”alpha\username” and your password).
- Grade 4 Poetry Suggested Scope and Sequence
- Unit Objectives for Grade 4
- Minilesson Blank Planning Sheet
- ML 4th Grade Prose to Poetry Day6
- ML 4th Grade Prose to Poetry Day7
- ML 4th Grade Revision White Space Day 18
- ML 4th Grade Word Choice Decisions
- Grade 4 Mentor Poems (large file-be patient)
These documents represent the efforts of your colleagues, and we want to continue to improve this work with the help of your experiences. Are there tips or tricks that you’ve discovered for particular minilessons? Are there obstacles you need help overcoming? Do you have suggestions for mentor texts for particular units?
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The Literacy Design Team
April 7th, 2008 at 9:43 am
I’m sure many of you already thought of this, but it is very helpful in using the unit. I grouped the copies of poems with the cover sheet in order of each lesson. If I made any overheads, I put them in order as well. Now each week is complete and I don’t have to go looking for anything!
April 8th, 2008 at 9:49 am
I love using the web site. I keep grades 3-5 open and zip between them to make sure that I’m not taking a lesson that might be used in another grade (or to get a great idea for modifiying!).
Some notes about Week 1, Day 3: 1) Make sure to edit “Plenty.” There are a few c’s missing from the latter part of the poem. 2) I’d suggest that you make sure that your kids have read and discussed the poem prior to the lesson. It’s a pretty meaty poem, rich with possibilities for conversations (and some tough vocabulary). Having kids read it for the first time, practice reading with expression, and then write a response is probably a bit ambitious for one lesson!
May 27th, 2008 at 6:33 am
I also printed all of the sheets and organized them for myself. It is such a great resource. I wonder if teachers could eventually post their ideas and minilessons for lessons. It would be a great way to share.
Iris
January 29th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
This year, I am teaching Grade 4 Poetry with my looping class. Today, during Day 8, I included the modeling of some “serious” topics within my own life that could spark poetry. First, I modeled a brainstorm of topics and then I chose one to write about. My students topics included: bullying, global warming, divorce, friendship troubles, their concerns about their parents losing their jobs, fear of something happening to someone they love, losing someone to death, recycling, helping those who have less than they do, having handicaps… Their brainstorms were really serious. I realized that my brainstorm led them to reveal such “serious” things within them. So if you are up to this lesson, model a brainstorm of your own serious topics that could lead to great “serious” poems.
Student Sample:
“Me Having Asthma”
Wheezing,
breathless,
heart beating…
when I need an asthma pump
to help me breath better.
Coughing,
desperation,
hoping it stops.