Erin Hall and Jamie Yates ECED 4300 B Dr. Tonja Root Fall 2008

1. Erin Hall and Jamie YatesECED 4300 BDr. Tonja RootFall 2008 Grade level: 4 Color Poetry

2. Jamie Yates • Stage of writing: Prewriting • GPS: ELA4W4. The student consistently uses a writing process to develop, revise, and evaluate writing. The studenta. Plans and drafts independently and resourcefully. • PLO: Student will use a graphic organizer to brainstorm ideas for color poetry.

3. Color Poetry • Form of writing: Today we will be discussing color poetry. Color poetry is a form of poetry that is all about colors. We will also incorporate our senses into our poetry. We will think about a particular color, and what it smells, feels, sounds, tastes, and looks like.

4. Prewriting • The prewriting stage is the very first stage of the writing process. During this time, we are getting ready to write. We choose a color to write about, come up with ways to relate the color to our five senses, and also use this time to organize those ideas.

5. Graphic Organizer The following slide is an example of the graphic organizer to be used during the prewriting stage of color poetry.

6. See Smell Taste Feel Hear

7. ExampleAPA Citation Green. (2002). Retrieved November 6, 2008 from www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=375.

8. Green Green is apples, markers, and cool. Green is the taste of vegetables. Green smells like grass and rain. Green makes me feel envious. Green is the sound of a lawnmower and a sigh. Green is a garden, forest, and a swamp. Green is renewal. Green is beginning again. Green is spring. www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=375 Author Unknown

9. Practice • As a class, students will choose a color and brainstorm ideas to create a collaborative color poem using the provided graphic organizer. The graphic organizer includes spaces related to each of the five senses.

10. Assessment • Students will complete a graphic organizer independently to gather ideas to be used in their own individual color poem.

11. Erin Hall • Stage of writing: Drafting • GPS: ELA4W4. The student consistently uses a writing process to develop, revise, and evaluate writing. The studenta. Plans and drafts independently and resourcefully. • PLO: Student will use their graphic organizer to remember ideas and begin a draft of a color poem.

12. Color Poetry • Form of writing: Today we will be discussing color poetry. Color poetry is a form of poetry that is all about colors. We will also incorporate our senses into our poetry. We will think about a particular color, and what it smells, feels, sounds, tastes, and looks like.

13. Drafting • The Drafting stage is the stage where we use the ideas we came up with in the prewriting stage and expand them into a more complete piece of work. We will use our graphic organizers to help us write our poem. We are just trying to get our ideas down on paper here.

14. ExampleAPA Citation • Green. (2002). Retrieved November 6, 2008 from www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=375.

15. Green • Green is the color of spring. • Green is renewal. • Green is the color of envy. • Green is a new crayon. • Green tastes like a crisp apple. • Green smells like fresh cut grass. • Green sounds like a croaking frog. • Green feels like soft, velvety moss. • Green looks like shiny emeralds. • Green makes me go. • Green is my favorite color. www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=375 Author Unknown

16. Practice Activity • As a class, we will use our brainstorming ideas from our graphic organizer to create a draft of a color poem.

17. Assessment Activity • Students will complete their own draft using their individual graphic organizer from the prewriting stage.