RL.2.4

Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

Step 1: Lesson Standards & Learning Goals

Vertical Progressions

RL.2.4 - Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

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RL.1.4 - Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

RL.3.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, identifying words that impact the meaning in a text.

Students will be able to...

explain how words and phrases provide meaning to a story
explain how words and phrases provide meaning to a poem
explain how words and phrases provide meaning to a song

Vocabulary

phrase(s) – a small groups of words representing a conceptual unit, containing either a subject or a verb, but not both (Note: Both a subject and a verb would constitute a clause.) (e.g., Running through the forest, she breathed in the fresh, crisp air.)

poem – a literary work, generally composed in verse and using figurative language, typically composed using a set structure (i.e., organizational rules)

rhythm – the pattern of beats, sounds, etc., usually within poetic verse or song, that alerts readers or listeners to the tempo and pacing of the text; the flow of words and other elements related to stressed and unstressed (or short and long) syllables

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Step 2: Assessment

- Vocabulary - Circle Map
Assessment Prompts/Formative Assessments:
60 Formative Assessment Strategies
Examples of Formative Assessment
Standard Proficiency Scale

Questions Stems/Prompts

Which sentence(s) are an example of alliteration?
Can you come up with a sentence where all the words start with the letter _____?
Identify words that rhyme.
Identify and clap the rhythm in a stanza.
Do you see any repetition in this story, poem, or song?
Why do you think the author repeated that line?
How do you know this is a poem and not a story?

Step 3: Lesson Instructions

Classroom Application

What it looks like in the classroom?

Students explain how words and phrases provide rhythm and meaning to a story, poem, or song such as regular beats, repeated lines, rhyme, and alliteration.

In the Classroom:

During shared reading of a poem/song, students highlight rhyming words and demonstrate how the rhyming words give the poem rhythm by performing the poem for partners.

During guided reading, the teacher points out words or phrases that repeat in a text and discusses with the students why the author chose to repeat those words and how the repeated words can help readers understand the text.