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Stage 1 Identify Desired Results Establish Goals: (G)

NCTE/IRA Standards 12 - Students will use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g., for learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange of information).

What understandings are desired? Students will understand that: 1. There are many forms of communication. 2. Poetry is a form of communication with its own style, organization, and purpose.

What essential questions will be considered? Essential Questions: (Q) 1. How do people communicate? 2. What is the purpose of poetry?

What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?

Students will know: (K) •Make sense of rhyme •Demonstrate an understanding of decoding strategies •Demonstrate an understanding of encoding strategies •Illustrate a knowledge of cinquain structure •Show an example of a shape poem
 * Use knowledge of onomatopoeia

Students will be able to: (S) • analyze the connection between letters and letter combinations (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes) by identifying sound words in texts they hear and or read, matching words to sounds they hear.
 * recognize a variety of strategies to spell sound words that they associate with sounds they have heard.
 * assume the role of poet
 * analyze web resources on sound words
 * assume the role of job applicant and create a greeting card commercial.

2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe