Appendix B
A bonus lesson has been provided. There are several more I could offer, such as Cinquain, the American Haiku and the Exaggeration Poem, but you get the idea.
Lesson IV
Introduce the letters Z-M-U
Z- Zeta Zebra Zigzags Zealously
M-Money Maker Monkey Mike Manages Manicotti
U- Ulysses Umbrella's under Ulna
1. If there are any vocabulary words put them on the wall. (Zealously, manage.) Give the definition of the words. 2. Write the sentences on the board. Give each of the students a sentence strip to take home. What are the letters in the poem? A Limerick is a poem that is funny. It has a rhyme and a rhythm, as discussed in the overview.
Format: The first line states what is going on. It has eight syllables. The second line tells what happen. It has eight syllables. The third line tells what went wrong. It has five syllables. The fourth line tells what went wrong. It has five syllables. The fifth line tells the result. It has eight syllables.
The rhyming goes like this. The last word in lines one, two, and five all rhyme. The words in line three and line four rhyme. The limerick is a type of poem you can have fun with and use to teach syllables.
The rhythm goes like this.
The first line goes- la lum la la lum la l a lum
The second line goes- la lum la la lum la la lum
The third line goes- la lum la la lum
The fourth line goes- la la lum la la lum
The fifth line goes- la lum la la lum la la lum
LIMERICK
There once was a boy from Britain. Who ran down the street he would spit in. He flooded the road,
then swam past a toad and now he has a fat kitten.
A. What is the poem about? Have the students echo the poem.
B. Choral read the poem.
C. Clap the syllables of the poem. Discuss the poem a little. This is an opportunity to talk about rhythm. Do the rhythm with the students. Have the students clap their names out in syllables.
D. Draw a picture to go with the poem. Use the word kitten to build your rhyming words. Write rhyming words in a list.
The Acrostic Phonogram
Introduce letters S-E-W-X
S- Sassy Sally Seal Slurps Sour Soda
E- Edward Elephant Escapes England
W- Wilbur Wolf Writes Wrinkled Worthless Words
X- Xavier fox X-rays Xylophones - (explain that this letter is often seen at the end of words)
This lesson will take several days. It will include a home connection with an assignment that will require parent involvement. The homework will be accompanied with a letter explaining the work.
Acrostic—Phonograms
A phonogram is a word family that has the same ending in a word. For example:
Phonogram Families
(-it,-ug,-ub, -ip, - ig,-op, - am, - ap, - an, -in, -et, -ot,-en,-at)
Now an Acrostic poem is a poem that is in vertical form. It usually has an outline around it, such as the thing that it names. Say for instance you are saying the word hat. The letters would be written in vertical form with a silhouette of a hat. Then you would write a word to go with the poem. Make a homework sheet and use the sample letter for your parent letter that is in appendix A.
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