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Name of Lesson: Caterpillar and Butterfly Poetry

Grade Level: 2nd or 3rd

Objectives: To help the students with reading and rhyming skills, and to make them more familiar with poetry.

 Introduction: I will read the students a poem, which will also be on the overhead projector.  We will talk about what poetry is and how some poetry rhymes and some does not.

Direct Instruction: I will ask the students to write down some of the words they remember about caterpillars and butterflies from other lessons and activities.  I will ask them to write a short poem about their favorite things about caterpillars or butterflies, along with drawing a picture to go with the poem. 

Conclusion: We will share the poems with the class then hang them with the rest of the projects.

Materials:   caterpillars/ butterfly poems

                   Transparency

                   Overhead projector

                   Paper

                   Pencils

                   Markers

Assessment: I would evaluate this lesson by reading the student’s poems to see what they have learned from our lesson.

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