Fourth-grade lesson plan on James Whitcomb Riley's poetic style, especially his use of local color and dialect. It also introduces the use of recitation as entertainment in the days before electronic entertainment. Although the lesson plan does not include recitations by students, it could be modified to include them. The site correlates the instructional activity to Indiana standards.

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dialect, local color, children's poet, hoosier poet, old swimmin hole, james whitcomb riley

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional