Chart Project

Standards:

0.3.0.2 Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

1. Recognize and produce rhyming words.

Rationale: For this chart project, the poem I chose has rhyming words. My main focus for this chart and for the activity following the chart is based on rhyming words to build their phonemic awareness. The activity could be done as a small group activity, a partner activity, or individually during reading workshop time.

Materials:

• Anchor Chart with Poem
• Pointer
• Marker/Sticky notes/stickers
• Rhyming word sort
• Chart paper to cover portions of the chart

Motivation:

To begin, I will have the students close their eyes and imagine they are in a jungle. Birds are chirping, frogs are croaking, elephants are making noise, etc. I will then have them picture monkeys swinging from tree to tree, and vine to vine. I will stop them and say, “wait a minute…what is that I see, a monkey eating in a tree?” I will then ask what kind of food they think monkeys eat. They will use what they know about monkeys to take a guess at what monkeys eat.

Steps to complete:

1. I will have the chart paper displayed with another chart paper covering the poem. I will then move the chart paper down until only the poems TITLE is showing. I will then have the students think, pair, and share what they think the poem will be about.
2. We will then begin talking about a couple things regarding poems. I will remove the top piece of chart paper so the whole poster is showing. Noticing the lines and the sentences, where periods are, how the image helps the poem, etc.

3. I will begin reading the poem straight through. Once we finish it, I will read it again, stopping after every line to talk about things they notice, or any questions they may have.

4. Once we read it after the 2nd time, point out the rhyming words and talk about what rhyming words are. Using either the marker/sticky notes/stickers, identify the words that rhyme and talk about why each of them rhyme.

5. Once the rhyming words are talked about, have students try to think if they know of any rhyming words and pair with the person next to them and share with each other.

6. Depending on the way the literacy time is set up, the next activity could be done independently, in pairs, or during small group/reading workshop time. The students will go off and start working on the word sort.

To make a more interactive small group/reading workshop time, you could have a big tree cut out and laminated and placed on the white board by magnets or tape. The monkeys could be laminated and cut out completely (so no white is showing) and the students can come up the the board and work together to place the words that rhyme somewhere on the tree that it matches with. This is just a larger version of a sort that can be reused for another year.

**The poem came from a website: https://www.poemsearcher.com/topic/monkey

**I created the rhyming word sort myself.