ACTIVITIES WORKSHEET

Grade Level - 4

Course English

Week Taught 31

State Standard: * 1.4.4A Types of Writing Write poems, plays, and multiparagraph stories

Student will know: How to define literary elements, literary devices, and dialog How to describe and/or illustrate people, places, and things	Student will be able to: Employ literary elements, literary devices and dialog as they apply Describe and/or illustrate people, places, and things
Assessment Question: Paper and Pencil: In the poem, “Spring”, what does Spring remind you of?
Spring makes me think of grass. Grass makes me think of my waterslide. My waterslide makes me think of swimming. Swimming makes me thing of water. Water makes me think of rain.
Rain makes me think of Spring.

Answer: grass, my waterslide, swimming, water, and rain

2. Performance Question: Students will write a poem about something they enjoy. It must be at least 5 lines long. The last line must revert back to the first.

Assessment Tool: Teacher corrected

Activity: Students will write a poem about a classmate in the same form as above. They will write about a positive experience they had in school which reminded them of a similar experience outside of school which in turn will remind them of another situation at school. All comments must be positive and friendly.

Duration: 1 hour

Resources for this activity: paper, pencil, markers

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Code: __1.4.4A ______________________Date Developed: ______________

Teacher Assigned: __Stacey Yetzer______Date Approved: 06/03