Instructional Content According to the district timeline the second grade team will be beginning their poetry unit within the next week. Students had the opportunity of reading different poems within their classroom these past few weeks. This library lesson will allow for students to share out what they know about poetry and to help guide further planning of instruction of this unit. Direct Instruction As we begin the lesson the librarian will remind students about the biography and fiction genre studies, they have been learning and will let students know that they will be learning more about the poetry genre these upcoming weeks. The librarian will introduce the PoeTREE anchor chart and tell students that just like all the other genre …show more content…
She will let students know that this variation by Jim Harris was written for entertainment and that they could find many other variations of the same poem written by different authors such as: • The Librarian’s Night Before Christmas • A Pirates Night Before Christmas After reading the book she will review page 2 that will be transferred to chart paper and will read to students showing them the text. The librarian will tell students that as she was reading she notices that poems are different from stories and will tell students the following: • Paragraphs are found in books, but in a poem we call them stanzas (boxing the stanza on page 2 written on the chart paper in green). • Sentences are found in books, but in poems we call them lines (underling in red). • Sometimes we can find rhymes in stories and in poems and will say the chant. “Go to the end of a line to find the rhyme” (circling the rhymes on the chart in blue). • She will then write the word stanza, lines, and rhyme on a sticky note to place on the PoeTREE. The librarian will let students know that these are some of the things they will continue to notice when they begin studying more about