Elizabeth Harlow and Cassie Collins ECED 4300B Dr. Tonja Root Fall 2007

Elizabeth Harlow and Cassie CollinsECED 4300B

Dr. Tonja RootFall 2007

Elizabeth Harlow and Cassie CollinsECED 4300B

Dr. Tonja RootFall 2007

Grade level: 4th

Specific form of writing: Five Senses Poetry

Elizabeth Harlow

ECED 4300B, Dr. Tonja Root

Fall 2007

Grade level: 4th

Specific form of writing: Five Senses Poetry

Stage of writing: Prewriting

PLO: The students will complete a graphic organizer to begin writing a five senses poem.

GPS: ELA4W2 The student demonstrates competence

in a variety of genres.

• Five senses poetry is writing a poem using one line for each of the five senses (sight, smell, touch, hear, and taste) to describe the topic of your poem.

• During the prewriting stage, we will complete a graphic organizer to brainstorm ideas for a five senses poem.

Sight

Smell

Taste

Five Senses Graphic Organizer

Hearing

Feeling

Topic:

______________

Five senses graphic organizer. (n.d.). Retreived November 18, 2007, from http://www.cheney268.com/Learning/Organizers/HandGraphicOrganizer.htm

• Evil sounds like… soldiers knocking on your door at night.

• Evil feels like… the cold steel of a gun against your neck.

• Evil smells like… gunpowder and shoe polish on the uniform of a Nazi soldier.

• Evil tastes like… dirt in mouth as you lie on the ground, hiding from the Nazis.

• Evil looks like… the sharp teeth of a German Sheppard flashing in the dark.

CAST Strategic Learning Edition Project, (2002). Warmup Activity 2 – 'Five Senses Poem'. Retrieved November 18, 2007, from CAST: Center for Applied Special Technology Web site: http://academics.uww.edu/cni/webquest/Fall02/Poetry%20Webquest/fivesensespoetry.html

Practice activity• Today, we will be writing a five senses

poem using the word love. • We will use a graphic organizer to

gather ideas about each of the five senses as they relate to love. – The teacher will dictate students’ ideas on a

graphic organizer on an overhead. – Each student will complete a graphic

organizer at their desk.

Assessment activity• The teacher will give the class several

concept ideas to choose from. • The teacher will write the following

concepts on chart paper for the class to see: friendship, sadness, playing at recess, doing homework.

• Each student will choose one of the concepts to create their own five senses poem.

• The students will use a blank graphic organizer to brainstorm sensory ideas.

Cassie Collins

ECED 4300B, Dr. Tonja Root

Fall 2007

Grade level: 4th

Specific form of writing: Five Senses Poetry

Stage of writing: Drafting

PLO: The students will draft a five senses poem. GPS:ELA4W2 The student demonstrates competence in

a variety of genres.

• Five senses poetry is a fun and easy way to describe a subject using the five senses (touch, taste, smell, hear, sight). – Each line in the poem describes the title or

subject using one of the five senses.

• During the drafting stage, the ideas from your completed graphic organizers can be used to write a five senses poem.

ChristmasI see the Christmas tree and children sitting on

Santa’s knee.

I smell the cookies I make and the Christmas cake.

I hear bells ringing and children singing.

I taste the Christmas sweets and all the other treats.

I feel the Christmas toys made for girls and boys.

Engerdahl, E. (n.d.). Our Five Senses Christmas Poem I see the Christmas tree and .... Retrieved November 18, 2007, from Kinderplans Web site: www.kinderplans.com/admin/images/csenses.pdf

Practice Activity• The students will use the graphic

organizer completed as a class to draft a class poem.

• The class will use the graphic organizer to write a poem on love.– Each student will write the class poem on

their own sheet of paper while the teacher writes it on the overhead.

Assessment Activity• The students will use a graphic

organizer they completed on their own to draft a five senses poem.

• The students will write a five senses poem.– Each poem will use all five senses to

describe the topic.