Lesson Plan
Snap, Crackle, Pop Poetry!
Kids love being silly and they love making things their own. Your kindergarteners will adore the poems in this hilarious read aloud and love being able to write and perform their very own sensory language poetry!
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify sensory language in poetry.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Review the five senses by asking students to describe a bouncing ball to someone without showing them the ball. Use a real ball to demonstrate.
- Ask them to describe what they see/hear/smell/taste/feel and record their thinking on the board as a list under the name for each of the five senses. Say, “Wow, you just used your five senses to describe this ball. Do you remember what your five senses are?”
- Explain that describing words that use our senses are called sensory words. Sensory words are ones that help us to describe things or feelings in a way that makes us think of or reminds us of our five senses.
Beginning
- Preview the five senses by reading aloud the book My Five Senses by Margaret Miller (or similar text).
Intermediate
- Provide additional examples of the five sense by having students practice describing something such as ice cream using their five senses.
- Record student thinking and observations on chart paper using visuals and words.