Today I want to share the lesson that will never fail. Before I begin , I want to give all credits to Miss Nancie for this wonderful lesson plan. 

Kindly hop over to check out the original idea of this brilliant lady. All I did was to adapt to my own group’s need.

Let’s get started.

PREPARATION:

So first I begin by printing out Nancie’s pictures for the lesson. As a respect to Nancie, I will only share a print screen of the image from her blog. If you want to find out more, go to her blog and you will see it.

Next thing I need will be:

• Dictionaries
• Glues
• coloured pencils (optional)

 

LESSON FLOW:

1.       My students struggle on word level so it is extremely important to make them go through the text and look for the meanings of words by themselves no matter how long that takes them.(not too long for a short poem). I cannot just ask them to read and interpret the text by themselves. That won’t work with my group. So

 (a)find the meaning of each word that they don’t understand.

(b) Teacher goes through the poem in plenary by asking questions and guiding them into guessing the meanings of each stanza. It makes them feel that they get it by themselves and not told by their teacher. 

2.      Once they roughly get an idea , give out the pictures and ask them to create a scene that they imagine is happening in the wood. Keep telling them they can BE AS CREATIVE AS THEY WANT. PUT IN AS MANY DETAILS FROM THE POEM AS THEY CAN. MAKE THEM THINK HARD.

3.     Personally I’m not too particular on asking them to colour because sometimes it does take a looonnggg time to get it done. I normally let them choose, if they want to do it, and we have time in the class, I’ll let them do it. If they think they are not too keen, I respect that too. (not all kids like art you know, and that’s okay)

4.      Depending on their level, you can make little tweak and twist here and there. I’ve tried the following:

(a) get students to add bubble speech for each animal.

(b) Each student put their work on the table, all students go around the class giving a like to 5 pieces that they love the most, leave comment if possible (must be in english). Once done, count the likes and announce the winner. If you were to do this, you can let them know beforehand, they will work twice harder, trice harder if you offer a reward. 

 

Some of my students’ work:

Those ticks are the votes

getting creative with the speech bubble.

going around as the judges.

 

Giving likes and leaving comments.

Nancie did the drawing in groups. I decided to make sure each student create their own, because I want them to have a copy of their own work and it shows they have put in the thoughts about the poem. No matter how to decide to do it, I’m it will be a fun and relaxing one! Don’t forget to hop over to check our Nancie’s version of the lesson to see the variety.

Hope this makes your job easier!

Grace