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Michele Zmich
5th grade Pattengill
Poetry- Idioms
12-18-14 2:15
20 minutes
Defining the term idiom and exploring poetry with idioms
and imagery it creates.
Students have been exploring poetry and creating poetry
anthologies. They have previously looked at figurative
language including simile metaphor and most recently
hyperbole.
Theres a Frog in My throat by Loreen Leedy and Pat
Street. Poetry by John Randall and Adele Tolley Wison

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Learning Goals and Assessments

CCSS.ELALITERACY.SL.5.5

Learning Goals

Type of Assessment

Connection to
activities

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.5.B

Students will be able

to
Identify the idioms
poetry and explain their
meanings

Poetry anthology
journals

Students will
undelerine the
idiom present in a
poem and illustrate
their poetry
anthologies with
drawings of the
images they
thought of when
hearing the idiom.

Recognize and
explain the meaning
of common idioms,
adages, and
proverbs.

Represent the imagery

of an idiom in a poem
through illustrations
and/or drawings
Attending to the Learners

Anticipating student ideas:

Making the content accessible

to all students:

Snot all students may understand the meaning of all

idioms. This may particularly difficult for ELL students.
Students may be confused as to the differences between
hyperboles and idioms.
Discussing multiple examples, as a class will help students
consider non-literal meanings for these words and phrases.
Reviewing hyperbole and comparing them to idioms can
help clarify confusion.

Instructional Sequence
Materials:

White board, dry erase markers, projector and power point presentation. Copies
of poem for all students. Poetry anthology journals, colored pencils. Scissors
and glue sticks. Anchor Chart

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Introduction. Today We will be learning about

idioms. I know, I know Its the end of the day
any many of you may be thinking my brain is
full. While you might feel that way is it really
full? Can a brain be full? My brain is full is an
example of an idiom.
Define Idiom
A word or phrase that means something
different from its literal meaning.
Common phrases or terms whose meaning
is not real, but can be understood by their
popular use.

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So idioms are words and phrases that say one

thing and mean another completely. Lets look at
some common idioms and their actual meanings.
Idioms might remind some of you of hyperboles.
Remember that Hyperboles are extreme
exaggerations. Some idioms are hyperboles such
as these.
It is important to remember that not all idioms are
hyperboles and not all hyperboles are idioms.
Lets look at a poem that has some idioms in it.
While this poem does not have the nicest title, it
does have some great examples of idioms. Lets
look for them together. Who would like to
underline one idiom that they found in this poem?
What does that idiom really mean? Are there any
more idioms in this poem? What do they really
mean?
I am going to pass out a poem that has an idiom
in it. Leave it turned over on your desk and close
your eyes and visualize as I read the poem. Turn
the poem over now. Lets read it together. Please
underline the idiom in this poem. Then put this
poem in your anthology and illustrate what you
visualized when you listened to the poem.

Notes and Reminders

(including management
considerations)
Begin power point
presentation

Definition slide

Common idioms slide

Idioms and Hyperboles slide

Refer to anchor chart.

Idioms for idiots slide.

Call students up to underline
the three idioms used in the
poem.

Cat Got Your Tongue

I was feeling shy when my
uncle came.
"Has the cat got your
tongue?" he said.
He must have meant, "Why
aren't you talking?"
Because my tongue was still
in my head.
Adele Tolley Wilson

Reflection on Planning
Learning goal for self:
Preparing to teach this
lesson:

Teaching a challenging concept in a way that all students will

comprehend.
Learn the poems well, create power point, copy poems