Students will share their poems with partners to get ideas for revising them. Students will present their revised poem to the class. The teacher will evaluate the students on the presentation of their poems. For an art lesson, students will create a watercolor drawing of their animals, just as the author of Beast Feast did. The poems and pictures will then be put together for a class Beast Feast book.
Students also have difficulty interpreting poems, which they are asked to do on proficiency tests.
However, students need to see that poetry does not have to be an exercise in torture. Jack Prelutsky is a popular author of children s poetry, whose poetry concerns topics that children can relate to such as nightmares, monsters, food, and animals. Prelutsky s poetry will help students to see the joy of poetry as well as inspire them with ideas for writing their own poetry. Students will become familiar with the poetry of author Jack Prelutsky. Students will complete a variety of poetry exercises in order to create their own poems.