Insects And The Dragon Cricket Jackets By Aileen Fisher
Recap 1. Who was the author of The Homework Machine? Answer: Shel Silverstein 2. What did we learn about in the lesson? Answer: Rhythm, Rhyme and different types of poems. 3. Was the homework machine a success? Answer: No. It gave the wrong answer to a maths problem.
4. What is a ‘contraption’? Answer: A machine 5. What was the rhyming scheme Answer: A, A, B, B, C, C, C, C, D, C 6. Can you name some of the types of poems that we looked at ? Answer: Acrostics, cinquains, couplets, triplets and alphabet poems.
Today we are going to look at………. Rhyming patterns in poems. Using descriptive words in poems.
Guessing vocabulary from context The cricket wears a jacket. I think jacket means… B. The jacket gets pinchy. I think pinchy means… C. The cricket cracks the jacket. I think crack means…
D. The cricket puts its jacket on a bracket. I think bracket means… E. The cricket sheds its jacket. I think sheds means… F. The cricket sheds its jacket with vigor. I think vigor means…
1. What is this poem about? 2. What problem does the cricket have? 3. How does the cricket solve his problem?
So, now we know that … 1. This poem is about crickets. 2. The problem is that the cricket’s jacket doesn’t fit correctly. 3. To solve the problem, the cricket cracks off his jacket and grows a new, bigger one.
Acrostic Spider Spider People are scared of spiders. It has eight legs. Different spiders are venomous. Each spider builds different webs. Red-back spiders are venomous.
Cinquain Spider Creepy, Scary Crawling, Spinning, Spying Hiding in the basement Waiting