Title – Christopher Columbus Poem

Topic – Pre Reading (Rhyming)

By – Karen Mercurio

Primary Subject – Language Arts

Secondary Subjects – Social Studies

Grade Level – K-1

Objective: Each student will be introduced to rhyming sounds by using poetry.

Standards: Massachusetts Language Standards

GENERAL STANDARD 2:

Questioning, Listening, and Contributing

2.1 Contribute knowledge to class discussion in order to develop a topic for a class project.

GENERAL STANDARD 6:

Formal and Informal English

6.1 Identify formal and informal language in stories, poems, and plays

GENERAL STANDARD 14: Poetry

14.1 Identify a regular beat and similarities of sounds in words in responding to rhythm and rhyme in poetry.

Material List:

Flip chart or large poster board

Velcro

Index cards

Preparation:

1. Write the following poem on a large flip chart leaving the last word in each second line blank. The words to be left blank are in underlined italics below. Attach a small piece of Velcro in the blank space where the word should go.

2. On a separate index cards write each of the missing words, one per card. Attach the opposite piece of Velcro on the back of each card.

Procedure:

Ask if any of the children know who Christopher Columbus is. Find out if they are familiar with the poem about him. The children can brainstorm things they know about him.

Review rhyming words, brainstorm a few.

Read the poem to the children, telling them to listen for rhyming words.

Break the children up into 7 groups

Give each group two of the index cards containing

the words.

Show the children the chart with the missing words

Re-read the poem pausing at the empty word allowing the child/group who has that word to come up and place it where it belongs. Re-read the poem together.

Carry over:

Allow the children to write their own poem about Christopher Columbus.

Have the children substitute the missing words with ones of their own.

The Poem:

IN 1492

The first American? No, not quite.

But Columbus was brave, and he was


bright


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Poem taken from

www.teachingheart.net/columbus.htm

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Karen Mercurio

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