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Teacher Overview
This unit is geared toward intermediate students and is a wonderful way to integrate fluency, poetry, science and music. Students work on their fluency of complex phrases and multisyllabic words through performing duet-like poems related to insects. In addition, students explore classical music inspired by insects, which culminates in a musical, poetic performance.
To fully complete this unit, it is necessary to have multiple copies of the book Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman. (http://www.amazon.com/Joyful-Noise-Poems-Two-Voices/dp/0064460932)
Find excerpts from the book here: http://gn009.k12.sd.us/Fluency%20Norms%20and%20Fluency%20Passages/3rd%20Grade%20Poetry%20Fluency/Fireflies.pdf and http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BRTPtXBaXzM/VEALqX4zLlI/AAAAAAAAEvw/BhL4Ngy-NcE/s1600/Water%2Bstriders%2B02.jpg
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CORE Standards Addressed
These are the standards that will be assessed at the end of the unit.
Language Arts Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.4.B: Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
Music Standards
MU:Re8.1.2: Demonstrate knowledge of music concepts and how they support creators’/performers’ expressive intent.
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Additional Standards Addressed
These are the standards which are also addressed in the unit, but which are not the focus for assessment of skills and process.
Language Arts
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
NGSS LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics; LS2.D: Social Interactions and Group Behavior
Music
MU:Pr4.1.3 Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, purpose, and context.
MU:Pr4.2.3 a.Demonstrate understanding of the structure in music selected for performance. b.When analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic patterns and melodic phrases using iconic and standard notation.
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Assessment
The assessment for this unit is a checklist found in the "Let's Perform It!" section. It can be used as a self assessment, and then either as a peer review or as a teacher-directed formative assessment.
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Find resources to print using these links:
Project Outline/Student Choice Tickets
Joyful Noise Feedback Form
These can be printed four to a page and cut. They can be used as formative assessment during practice, for student audience members, and as a summative assessment. To be effective, it is helpful for the teacher to give specific feedback in the "comments" section. Students are reading with a parter, but they can be evaluated separately.
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