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Grade1, Writing
Benchmark E: Continue to develop an awareness of genre (COS 12 SAT 10) Examples: poetry and folklore (fairy tales, tall tales, legends, myths, fables)

Lesson Plans:

Fairy Tales Around the World
In this lesson plan, students read and learn to understand fairy tales in order to recognize their universal literary structures and themes. They compare similar fairy tales from different cultural and geographic regions of the world and write about conflicts between good and evil and imagery and motifs that are repeated across many cultures and time periods.

Unit Plan for Folktales
In this unit children read, write, view, listen to, and discuss folktales from countries around the world.

A Bear of A Poem
Using familiar childhood stories, students will work together to create a poem that is “found” in the language presented in the picture books they read. Children will look in texts for writing that inspires them—looking for favorite words, phrases, and sentences. Working together, students will combine their words and phrases to create a class poem. When complete, the new piece will be shared as performance poetry.

Poetry Portfolios
Through a weekly poem, students explore meaning, sentence structure, rhyming words, sight words, vocabulary, and print concepts.

All Together Now
Using resources available through EDSITEment, make poetry exciting for your students as they listen to, write and recite poems that are sure to please.

Fact or Fantasy Writing
This simple lesson introduces fiction and non-fiction writing. Students see that some written text is for pleasure and enjoyment while some is for relaying information. They get to experience both types during the lesson.

Resources:

Kids Space: International stories written by kids, for kids and about kids

Forms of Poetry for Children: A list of poetry types for children with many online resources.

Francine's Play-maker: Use Francine's play-maker at PBS to make up your own classroom dramatic production

Create Your Own Scenario: Kids can write their own play using a cast of characters provided on this site.

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