Elizabeth Harlow and Cassie CollinsECED 4300B

Dr. Tonja RootFall 2007

Elizabeth Harlow and Cassie CollinsECED 4300B

Dr. Tonja RootFall 2007

Grade level: 4th

Specific form of writing: Five Senses Poetry

Elizabeth Harlow

ECED 4300B, Dr. Tonja Root

Fall 2007

Grade level: 4th

Specific form of writing: Five Senses Poetry

Stage of writing: Prewriting

PLO: The students will complete a graphic organizer to begin writing a five senses poem.

GPS: ELA4W2 The student demonstrates competence

in a variety of genres.

• Five senses poetry is writing a poem using one line for each of the five senses (sight, smell, touch, hear, and taste) to describe the topic of your poem.

• During the prewriting stage, we will complete a graphic organizer to brainstorm ideas for a five senses poem.

Sight

Smell

Taste

Five Senses Graphic Organizer

Hearing

Feeling

Topic:

______________

Five senses graphic organizer. (n.d.). Retreived November 18, 2007, from http://www.cheney268.com/Learning/Organizers/HandGraphicOrganizer.htm

• Evil sounds like… soldiers knocking on your door at night.

• Evil feels like… the cold steel of a gun against your neck.

• Evil smells like… gunpowder and shoe polish on the uniform of a Nazi soldier.

• Evil tastes like… dirt in mouth as you lie on the ground, hiding from the Nazis.

• Evil looks like… the sharp teeth of a German Sheppard flashing in the dark.

CAST Strategic Learning Edition Project, (2002). Warmup Activity 2 – 'Five Senses Poem'. Retrieved November 18, 2007, from CAST: Center for Applied Special Technology Web site: http://academics.uww.edu/cni/webquest/Fall02/Poetry%20Webquest/fivesensespoetry.html

Practice activity• Today, we will be writing a five senses

poem using the word love. • We will use a graphic organizer to

gather ideas about each of the five senses as they relate to love. – The teacher will dictate students’ ideas on a

graphic organizer on an overhead. – Each student will complete a graphic

organizer at their desk.

Assessment activity• The teacher will give the class several

concept ideas to choose from. • The teacher will write the following

concepts on chart paper for the class to see: friendship, sadness, playing at recess, doing homework.

• Each student will choose one of the concepts to create their own five senses poem.

• The students will use a blank graphic organizer to brainstorm sensory ideas.

Cassie Collins

ECED 4300B, Dr. Tonja Root

Fall 2007

Grade level: 4th

Specific form of writing: Five Senses Poetry

Stage of writing: Drafting

PLO: The students will draft a five senses poem. GPS:ELA4W2 The student demonstrates competence in

a variety of genres.

• Five senses poetry is a fun and easy way to describe a subject using the five senses (touch, taste, smell, hear, sight). – Each line in the poem describes the title or

subject using one of the five senses.

• During the drafting stage, the ideas from your completed graphic organizers can be used to write a five senses poem.

ChristmasI see the Christmas tree and children sitting on

Santa’s knee.

I smell the cookies I make and the Christmas cake.

I hear bells ringing and children singing.

I taste the Christmas sweets and all the other treats.

I feel the Christmas toys made for girls and boys.

Engerdahl, E. (n.d.). Our Five Senses Christmas Poem I see the Christmas tree and .... Retrieved November 18, 2007, from Kinderplans Web site: www.kinderplans.com/admin/images/csenses.pdf

Practice Activity• The students will use the graphic

organizer completed as a class to draft a class poem.

• The class will use the graphic organizer to write a poem on love.– Each student will write the class poem on

their own sheet of paper while the teacher writes it on the overhead.

Assessment Activity• The students will use a graphic

organizer they completed on their own to draft a five senses poem.

• The students will write a five senses poem.– Each poem will use all five senses to

describe the topic.