Overview: During this webquest, students will develop their understanding of the genre of poetry through discussion and writing of free verse poems. Working in free-verse allows all students to have early writing success. The goal is to deepen their knowledge of this genre and apply the traits of good writing. Students will hear, view, notice, and discuss free-verse poems written by students of similar ages. Through the context of noticing and discussing the whole poem, students explore elements of poetry. In addition, using kid’s poems as models gives students enthusiasm, confidence, and ideas for their own writing.
Objectives: Students will learn to experiment with language, select a title, focus on a single topic, include details, use imagery, analyze beginnings and ends of poems, use imagery, create a mood, and express opinions, feelings and attitudes within their own writing process of poetry.
Standards: Write simple, descriptive poems with precise nouns, active verbs, and descriptive adjectives and adverbs (W.1.d), (W.1.e)
Descriptions: Teachers will guide students through the six Tasks, Celebration and Evaluation part of this webquest.
Assessment Tools: Evaluation Tab includes rubric for meeting the standard of writing. It's important to note that conferencing with individual children is important during writing time.
Framework A Lesson
A lesson begins with a sharing of kids’ poems, teacher modeling a poem (or creating a Shared Writing poem together) and then moves to independent
writing supported by brief conferencing, and ends with a sharing session:
Objectives: Students will learn to experiment with language, select a title, focus on a single topic, include details, use imagery, analyze beginnings and ends of poems, use imagery, create a mood, and express opinions, feelings and attitudes within their own writing process of poetry.
Standards: Write simple, descriptive poems with precise nouns, active verbs, and descriptive adjectives and adverbs (W.1.d), (W.1.e)
Descriptions: Teachers will guide students through the six Tasks, Celebration and Evaluation part of this webquest.
Assessment Tools: Evaluation Tab includes rubric for meeting the standard of writing. It's important to note that conferencing with individual children is important during writing time.
Framework A Lesson
A lesson begins with a sharing of kids’ poems, teacher modeling a poem (or creating a Shared Writing poem together) and then moves to independent
writing supported by brief conferencing, and ends with a sharing session:
- sharing kids’ poems (15 to 20 minutes)
- sustained writing (25 to 30 minutes) - using self-selection of topics and an unstructured form
- sharing and celebrating (10 to 15 minutes)