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Grade K, Writing Benchmark E: Develop an awareness of genre (COS 14/ SAT 10) Examples: poetry and folklore, (fairy tales, tall tales, legends, myths, fables)

Lesson Plans: Unit Plan for Fairytales In this unit children learn how they can use their literacy skills while enjoying and learning about fairy tales. Children identify several fairy tales and talk about the story elements, such as special characters, elements of magic, and happy endings while constructing class story maps. Writing Poetry With Rebus and Rhyme This lesson encourages young students to use their developing knowledge of rhyming words to write rebus poetry modeled on rebus books. 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. 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. 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. Poetry Portfolios Through a weekly poem, students explore meaning, sentence structure, rhyming words, sight words, vocabulary, and print concepts.

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. Kids Are Authors: Kids Are Authors is an annual competition open to Grades K–8 and is designed to encourage students to use their reading, writing, and artistic skills to create their own books. Well Versed : A guide to teaching poetry 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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