Unit Planner Grade: 3 Date: 13th Nov 2014 Unit length: 4 weeks

Stage 1 Desired Results

Established Goals: Learners will develop an understanding that poetry is a creative channel
of communication that is used to achieve a range of social purposes.
Conceptual Understandings:
Essential Questions:
Students will understand that . . .
What is poetry for?
Poetry expresses feelings and
What does poetry look like?
reflections on experiences, people
What are some different forms and
and events
characteristics of poetry?
Poetry works mainly through our
How are feelings and reflections (best)
emotions, sensory experiences and
expressed through poems?
imaginative perceptions
How do we choose and order words in
The poets choices of words and order
our poems?
of words enhances meaning in the
poem
Students will know . . .(Knowledge)
Students will be able to . . . (Skills)
that poetry is a recognizable text
Respond to poems by observing,
type
interpreting and creating their own
authentic artistic piece based on their
that poems lend themselves to
personal reaction and interpretation
personal interpretations and

Compose poems, containing:

responses
o Purpose, structure and
that poetry can be used to express
language features that are
personal feelings and reflections
appropriate to the type of
that choices of words and word order
poem they selected (couplet,
are important to enhance the
quatrain, diamante,
meaning of poems
palindrome)
o Word choices and word order
that enhance the meaning of
their poem
Stage 2 Assessment Evidence
Pre-Assessment: Students create an independent poem of their choice. (Prior to being given
any input on poetry).
Performance Tasks:
Other Evidence:
Students create and respond to original
Discussions of different kinds of poems
poems. They will write and record a poem of
and possible meanings (response/
their own, and swap their poem with a peer.
interpretation)
Students will respond to their peers poem
Sharing own poems with the class
through their chosen visual/artistic form
(creation/ expression of meaning)
(visual art, music, dance).
Moderation of assessment: within grade and cross grade with grades 2 and 4
Stage 3 Learning Plan
Learning Activities: (include differentiation)
Students use NSW samples and Writing Fun samples to experience and understand
poetic forms
Use of graphic organizers to analyze and to create poems (Analyze a Poem to Write a
Poem)
Reading and listening to poems written by poets
Envelope poetry
Creating poems to music and art pieces
As Soon as Its Fall by Aileen Fischer poem with cloze activity
Reconstruction of cut up couplets and quatrains, diamante and palindromes
Reading and performing poems of their own, and favourite poems by poets
Building up word banks that can be used when writing poetry
Reflection: