What Makes Something Alive - Virginia Department of Education

Topic 2: Session 2.4 – Animal Poetry Introduction
Session Supplies:
• Teacher-selected book on wetlands that was read during Topic 2, Session 2.1
• Cinquain Brainstorming sheet (pg. 52) (This page will be used again for Topic 2, Session
2.5.)
• Animal Reading Response sheet from Topic 2, Session 2.1 (pg. 18)
Session Virginia SOL
Science English Mathematics History & Social Science
2.1 k 2.2 a, b, c, e
2.3 a, b
2.7 d, e
2.12 a, c, d
Session 2.4 – Animal Poetry Introduction
Teacher Questions & Notes
Procedures
1. Refer students to the teacher-selected book on wetlands that was
read during Topic 2, Session 2.1.
2. Review with the students their responses to the bottom two
statements on the Animal Reading Response sheet (pg. 18).
3. Select a section in the book about one of the animals it describes.
a. Ask students to close their eyes while you reread the page(s)
about the animal you chose.
b. Tell the students to picture the animal in its habitat, and listen
for the describing words as you read the selected passage.
-What animal was described?
-What words were used to describe
the animal(s)?
-What rhyming words could you
use to describe the animal and its
habitat?
-What kind of writing uses rhyming
words?
-Does all poetry rhyme?
4. List the animal and the describing words on the board.
5. If you have time, do the same thing with other selections in the
book.
6. Introduce the cinquain poem.
7. Read an example of a cinquain.
Hawk
Large, Strong
Soaring, Diving, Twisting
Beautiful in the sky
Bird
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Virginia Animals and their Habitats
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