Reading Lesson Plan

Teacher
Candidate:

Weig, Rozlynn

Lead
Teacher:

Webster, Terry

Grade/Subject:

First Grade

District:

Minidoka County

Lesson Content: Reading: Poetry

School:

Rupert Elementary

SNC
Supervisor:

Time
Allotted:

20 minutes

Copmann, Laurie

Materials, including technology:

Imagine It teachers manual, Student Readers, white board with selection vocabulary written on
it (riddles).

Standard(s):
RL.1.4. Identify words and phrases in stories or gems that suggest feelings or appeal to the
senses.
RL.1.5. Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give
information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
RL.1.6. Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.
RL.1.7. Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
RL.1.10. With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade
1.

How will learning be assessed at the end of the unit/learning cycle (summative):
Students will take a summative test tomorrow to check for comprehension on the poem
Riddles.

Essential Vocabulary

Definitions

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Poetry

a special kind of writing in which sounds and meanings

of words are combined to create ideas and feelings.

riddles

plural of riddle, a question or problem that is hard to

solve

Sequence and Scope of Instruction

1) Ask students to open to Riddles in
Student Reader on page 72-73.

Instructional Strategy

1) Explain that this reading 20 min.

selection entitled
Riddles, is called
poetry.
Relay to students that
poems and poetry are a
special kind of writing in
which sounds and
meanings of words are
combined to create ideas
and feelings.

2) Build background

Estimate
time

2) Tell students that

Riddles is a poem about
riddles. Ask them to tell
what they know about
riddles. Invite them to share
any riddle they know.
Example: What comes
down, but never goes up?
Rain!
*Remind students that not
all riddles are short and
funny and that some can be
quite long and complex.

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3) Browse and Set Purpose

3) Ask students what they

think the poem is about.
Invite students to notice that
the children in the
illustration are talking and
laughing together.
Ask students to think about
why solving riddles might
be fun? (to try to figure
tricky questions out)
Ask students what the
purpose of reading a poem
might be about?
(entertainment)
Inform students that another
purpose for reading poetry
is to encounter selections
with different forms and
styles of writing. Explain
that the form and style of
poetry selections means
that the word choices,
sentences broken into
parts, and use of rhyme
can always vary. Sometimes
poems rhyme, sometimes
they dont, so we have to
slow down our reading rate
to better understand the
poem.

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4) Before Reading the Poem

4) Remind students as we
read the poem, the sentences
are sometimes divided into
parts, and words might be
repeated.
And we need to make sure
to pause after the periods so
we can hear the rhythm of
the poem.
(rhythm: a repeated sound)

5) Focus question

5) Read focus question to

students, remind them to
keep it in mind as they
listen to the poem.

6) Read poem.

6) Read poem to students

the first time.

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7) Check for comprehension with clarifying

7) good readers
constantly evaluate their
understanding of what they
read. Lets stop here and
clarify the ones. We
know the poem is about
riddles because of the title.
So the ones must mean
the riddles.
**What does the poem say
is the best kind of riddles?
(the ones that make you
think!)
It is important to clarify
things you find confusing.
Does anyone have
something that we need to
clarify, or help you
understand?
ex: I had to clarify what
people are waiting for. I
remember that riddles have
answers, so I figured out
that everyone is waiting for
the answer.

8) Read poem chorally

Read poem chorally

together, remind them to
pause at the commas and
punctuation.

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8) Review that Riddles was an example of a
poem

Riddles was an example

of a poem of persisting and
not giving up in finding the
answer to a riddle.
**What does the poem say
is the best kind of riddles?
(the ones that make you
think!)
Poems and poetry are a
genre of writing and that the
sentences and rhythm of the
poetry is very different from
other types of writing.

Closure : Remind students the best type of riddles make them think! and poetry is a special
type of writing that sounds and meanings of words are combined to create ideas and feelings.
Ask row by row to put books away to transition to recess.

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