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A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry Lesson PlanA Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry Lesson Plan
Publisher
National Council of Teachers of English
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Grade
K - 2nd
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
4 days
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Technology
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Year
2018
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A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry

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This A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry lesson plan also includes:
  • Prose Passage from Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
  • A Found Poem from The Berenstain Bears Go to School
  • Found Poem Planning Page
  • Rubric for Class-Created Found Poem and Poetry Performance
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Scholars work collaboratively to compose a found poem from one of their favorite stories. With a finished product in hand, class members form a circle and perform their work for an audience by taking turns reciting one line till the poem is complete. 

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

poetry, found poems, children's literature, poetry writing, reading poetry, responding to literature, responding to reading

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • If class members do not feel comfortable performing in front of families and friends, keep performances for classroom eyes only
  • Once the lesson is done, encourage pupils to make their own found poem

Classroom Considerations

  • The lesson's duration includes four 50-minute periods 
  • Example poems are made using stories from the Berenstain Bears collection 

Pros

  • Can be used with any favorite children's book
  • The lesson's webpage is divided into six sections with headers that makes locating specific information easy

Cons

  • Some links no longer work 

Common Core

RL.K.1 RL.K.4 RL.K.9 RL.1.1 RL.1.2 RL.1.4 RL.1.7 RL.1.9 RL.1.10 RL.2.1 RL.2.4 RL.2.9 RL.2.10 RI.K.1 RI.2.1 RI.2.4 RF.K.4 RF.1.4.a RF.1.4.c RF.2.4.a RF.2.4.c W.K.7 W.1.5 W.1.7 SL.K.6 SL.1.2 SL.2.1.a SL.2.1.c L.K.5.a L.K.5.c L.K.6 L.1.4.a L.1.5.a L.1.5.c L.2.4.a L.2.5.a

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