Micro Teach Learning Plan #1

Title: Rhyming Scheme and Rhythm

Name: Melissa Faz
Subject/Grade: Reading 5th grade Date Taught: March 3, 2015
Type of Instruction: Direct Instruction
Lesson Plan
Objective:
After being given rhyming worksheet, the students will identify and write in the rhyming word getting 3/4 correct.
TEKS:
Reading 5.4 Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide
evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to analyze how poets use sound effects (e.g., alliteration,
internal rhyme, onomatopoeia, rhyme scheme) to reinforce meaning in poems.
Background Information:
Students have learned in the 4th grade how to make inferences and learned how to draw conclusions about the structure and elements
of poetry (e.g., rhyme, meter, stanzas, line breaks).

Materials:
Karate Kid poem
Home made Rhyming Pegboard (Made out of cardboard paper and thumbtacks)
Colorful rubber bands
Colored markers
Worksheet (Rhyme Scheme and Rhythm) for elaboration and second part for extension.

Equipment:
None
Classroom Management/Environment:
Class will be set up in a half circle.
The students will be able to call out answers unless the teachers hand is raised.
Engagement/Focus:
Greeting: Good morning class!

Link to previous, current, and/ or future knowledge: Remember last year when your 4th grade teacher talked about those words that
sound almost like identical twins? Well today we are going to learn more about those words and the different rhyming schemes and
rhythms that they create in a poem!

Engagement: I will ask students to touch their nose when they hear words that rhyme. Words: (cat, hat) (see, be) (mix, cap) (do, at)
(hip,dip)

Outcome: By the end of the lesson, you will be able to hear what rhyming and rhythm patterns sound and you will be able to identify
them in a poem.

Expected behavior: You may call out unless my hand is up.

Rules for Rhyming Pegboard include raising your hand to connect the rhyming words together.

Explanation/Procedures:
1. Remind the students what rhyme is.
Rhyming is when words end with the same sound.

2. Tell the students that we often find rhyme in poems.

Rhyming is something that can typically be found in poems because it creates a sound effect and helps us remember what we
have read.

3. Give the students each a copy of the poem Karate Kid. While listening to the poem that will be read by me, the students will
follow along and underline any rhyming words that they may hear.

Class, make sure you are following along and listening carefully to any rhyming words you may hear and underline them as
 you follow along because after I read this we will be doing an exciting activity with these words.

4. After reading the poem to the students, I can engage learning in the classroom by having the students use the rhyming
pegboard, which will allow for the connection of the rhyming words in the poem. This short activity will help the students
listen for the different rhyming sound effects that the author has used in the poem. Additionally, this allows the students to
visualize and identify the rhyming words that they heard in the poem.

Has anyone heard of what a rhyming pegboard is? Well you are about to find out! The rhyming pegboard is a home made
board that will allow you to connect any rhyming words you see from the poem we just read.

Now we will begin using the rhyming pegboard. By raising your hands I want someone to tell me two rhyming words they
see and connect them on the rhyming pegboard. (Repeat this activity until all words have been connected)

5. Now that we have finished having a little fun with the rhyming pegboard, I want you all to work independently on a
worksheet with rhyming schemes and rhythm. We will be doing the first one together and if you have any questions after that
feel free to raise your hand and I will come and help. (Monitor)
Extension/Elaboration:
Elaboration: For elaboration, I will have the students learn how to independently read part of a poem and create a rhyme scheme.
The rhyme scheme will be taught with a fill in the blank worksheet using lines of a poem and a given word bank.

Extension: For extension, the students will be asked to identify and underline the rhythm or accented syllables in the lines of a poem
with two different colored markers.

Closure:
Review:
What is a rhyme scheme?
Which of the following examples is the one with two rhyming words, When I go to the park. My dog likes to run. At the park
there once was a girl who loved snakes. She tried feeding them candy and cakes.
Anticipation: Tomorrow we will be learning about very repetitive sounds! No not your mom telling you to clean your room over and
over again, but words that are used to form sounds in poems to make a point. (Alliteration)
Praise: Today you worked very hard, I really appreciate that you all followed along while I read the poem aloud and you all did an
amazing job at connecting the rhyming words on the pegboard! Great job and keep up the great work!
Assessment:
Completed the rhyming pegboard as a class and completed the Rhyme Scheme and Rhythm worksheet, getting 3/4 correct.
Resources:
Resource #1: Baumann, J.F. & Chard, D. J. et al. (2011). Texas Journeys, 5th grade Teachers Edition, Vol. 1, pp. T252- T253. Orlando,
Florida: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Resource #2: August, D. & Bear, D. R. et al. (2011). Texas Treasures a Reading/ Language Arts Program, 5th grade Practice Book,
Vol. 2, Rhyme Scheme and Rhythm pp. 52 New York, New York: Macmillan/McGraw- Hill