Creatures of the Earth, Sea, and Sky by Georgia Heard
Choose 6 poems that could lend themselves best to dramatic interpretation and copy them onto chart paper.
Together as a class read them several times.
"Think carefully about the poems we just read. Which one is the most interesting to you? Which one makes you think? Hmm.... what is the poem really about? Choose one you'd like to understand better"
"Once you've decided, go to the peom you want to learn more about. Take it with you and find a place in the room you can work well. You'll have about fifteen minutes to build on each other's ideas and figure out how your group can best interpret the peom you've chosen."
Figure 8.6 what the worksheet could look like
*Integrate Writing*
Children saw this activity as a way to construct riddles. They decided to write a poem together and send it home to see if their parents could figure out what they were describing.
*Integrate into the community*
Have each child write a riddle. Post it in the hallway allowing other students to try and infer what the poems are about. After a week or so, children wrote their titles of the poems.
Reading With Meaning chapter 8
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