Concrete PoetryPrewriting5th Grade

Candace Meeks Amber Williams

ECED 4300 C Spring 2010Dr. Tonja Root

Candace MeeksPrewriting

GPS: ELA4W4 The student consistently uses a writing process to develop, revise, and evaluate writing. The student ◦a. Plans and drafts independently and resourcefully.

Candace MeeksPrewriting

PLO: Students will complete a concrete poetry graphic organizer using words and phrases.

PrewritingForm: Concrete poetryTopic: What you are writing about?

Purpose: the meaning of the writing

Shape: related to topicWords are based on the shapeAudience: Who will read or listen?

Concrete Poetry: Drafting

Topic

Words related to Topic

Shape related to Topic

Name ___________________ Date _____________

Concrete Poetry Graphic Organizer

Bradley. Retrieved March 4, 2010 from www.akrotirischool.org.uk/.../Bradley%20poem.jpg.

Moon Concrete Poem Example

Practice Activity

Teacher or fifth grade students choose a topic

Teacher and students complete a graphic organizer using interactive writing

Assessment Activity

Teacher will have folded premade topics in a bag

Fifth grade students will pull a topic from the bag

Students will complete a graphic organizer based on the topic selected

GPS: ELA4W2 The student demonstrates competence in a variety of genres. C. Creates an organizing structure appropriate to a specific purpose, audience, and context.

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Amber Williams Drafting

PLO

The students will draft their poems from their prewriting graphic organizers.

Concrete Poetry

•Based on a topic/theme•Placement of words related to poem meaning•Poem arranged in a shape•Can use sentences, words, phrases, rhyming, alliteration, different size/color words, etc.

Concrete Poetry: Drafting

1. Determine how/where you will draw shape2. Use topic words (single words and/or sentences, colors, sizes) 3. Can include rhyming, alliteration, etc.

(Use Prewriting G.O.)

IPOD Concrete Poem Example

Brooke. (2009). Concrete poems. Retrieved March 4, 2010, from WordPress. Web site: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bolee.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/ipod-concrete-poem.jpg&imgrefurl=http://bolee.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/concrete-poems/&usg=__Ziny6ZCAsCljNpfzwq-Zl1G5c_s=&h=688&w=640&sz=75&hl=en&start=7&itbs=1&tbnid=xGaSojYRsEjRnM:&tbnh=139&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dconcrete%2Bpoems%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1

5th Grade Practice Activity

•Class Collaboration•Interactive Writing

•Teacher encourages creativity (rhyming,

alliteration, unique word choices/voice)

Students choose topic, words, style

Share the penInteractive White Board recommended

5th Grade Practice Activity Continued

5th Grade Assessment

Students will draft poem from their prewriting G.O.

Students use G.O. as a guide