Lesson Planning of Recite the Poem with Actions Subject English Grade 3rd

 

Lesson Planning of Recite the Poem with Actions

Subject English

Grade 3^rd

Students` Learning Outcomes

• Recite poems with actions.

Information for Teachers

• Poems usually have rhyming words and this is how we can differentiate between poetry and prose.
• Poems also have a shorter sentence structure.
• Stanza is more than two lines of a poem. The stanzas follow a common pattern.
• Verse has two lines each. A poem can have more than one verse.
• Chorus is also a very important part of the poem.
  
• Chorus / refrain is a line or two, repeated particularly when it comes either at the end of a stanza or between two stanzas.

Note:

• The teacher must learn at least 2 to 3 poems by heart before the start of this period. It will help him / her teach this lesson easily.
• While teaching the lesson, the teacher should also use the textbook at all steps where it is required.

Material / Resources

Writing board, chalk / marker, duster, (select a few poems that belong to the same theme or has language aspects that the teacher would like to introduce or reinforce, use the poems given in the textbook, textbook, worksheet

Introduction

• Tell the students that they will be learning poems today.
• Stand at a place where every student of the class can see th teacher easily. Recite the poem without actions, intonation or pauses.

• Now recite the poem with correct intonation. Give a lot of emphasize on the rhyming words and on the chorus. Teacher also needs to perform actions with the poem.
• If the teacher can`t perform he /she can select a few confident volunteers to come and perform actions while he / she recites the poem with them.
• Explain that actions help us appreciate and understand the poem better. The movement help us keep the rhythm and rhyme of the poem.
• Try to use all the space available in the class. Move in the spaces between the benches of the students.
• Ask the students to follow you in reciting the poem with actions.

Development

Activity 1

• Ask some students to volunteer for the activity. Ask them to come forward.
• Tell the students that they will be helping the class learn and have fun.
• Ask the students to follow the teacher in reciting the poem and also in the actions the teacher or volunteers perform.

• Tell the class that all of them should see each other and raise their hands if anyone recites or performs incorrectly.
• This will ensure the participation of all the students of the class.

Activity 2

• Divide the class in two groups.
• Ask one group to recite one verse of the poem with actions and the other group to recite the next verse.

• Teacher can also ask them to come up with their own actions for the poem.
• This activity will continue till the end of the poem.

Sum up / Conclusion

• Conclude the lesson by again asking the class to recite the poem with actions.
• This time, you must step aside and let the class do this, on their selves.
  

Assessment

• Ask a student to come up and perform one random action from the poem, without reciting the words behind those actions.
• Ask the class to recite the words behind those actions.
  
• Divide the class in groups. Give the students a new poem. Ask them to write it in their notebooks. Or ask them to write a poem of their own choice.
• Allow them to write it in their notebooks and to practice reading it with actions.
• Appreciate the students for their actions and performance.

Follow up

• Ask the students to recite and perform the poem in front of their parents and siblings.
• Give the students a new poem and help them learn it. Ask the students to come up with their own actions for each stanza of the poem.
• Ask each student to recite it and perform on that poem in the next class in front of the class.
• Ask the students to think of some other actions for the poems they have written and performed on.
• Ask them to write a poem of their own and then to recite it with actions in the next class.