Lesson 10: Body Verse - Part A
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Unit 3
How Does the Human Body Work?
Lesson 10
Reader's Notebook
Body Verse
Pages 154 to 156 of Literacy in Action 5A.
Click each coloured row for information about the activity.
Jon Sciescka, is the author of a selection of poems you will find on pages 154 to 156 under the title Body Verse in Literacy in Action 5A.
Sciescka writes humorous poems and stories. Some of his more famous stories are The Real Story of the Three Little Pigs and The Stinky Cheese Man.
Websites
Do you know of any other famous poets? A few of the better known poets for youth are:
- Robert Munsch - funny poems
- Lewis Carroll - clever rhymes and poems
- Robert Louis Stevenson - imagery (word picture) poems
- Christina Rossetti - activist poems
- Dr. Seuss - funny poems with clever rhymes
- Margaret Sangster - poems about serious situations
- Shel Silverstein - poems about silly situations
- Walter de la Mare - poems about scary situations
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox - poems about sad situations
These poets play with words and rhymes or use words differently to surprise you, to delight you, or to make you laugh. This is called word choice. The words poets use encourage a reader's imagination to make the reader think differently about a something.
Poems use precise words that appeal to your senses (taste, touch, smell, sight, and hearing). Sensory words like grey, wet, and swollen make you see and feel in your imagination. Concrete words are words you can drop on your foot such as hair, snow, rain, or nest.
Read the pre-reading question that is on the left side of page 154 of Literacy in Action 5A. Take a look at the illustrations that have been included with the poems.
- Read aloud to yourself the three poems on pages 154 to 156 of Literacy in Action 5A.
- Choose one of the poems and answer Questions 1 and 2 in the During Reading section of the Reader's Notebook: Body Verse.
Download PDF
- Download the document Reader's Notebook: Body Verse.
- IMPORTANT NOTE: When the download screen opens:
- Click the "Open with" button.
- Select "Adobe Reader".
- Click "OK".
- You will then be able to view the document Reader's Notebook: Body Verse.
- Print the document.
Answer Question 1 of the After Reading section on the Reader's Notebook: Body Verse.
Save
How to save a file:
- Scan the document to your computer.
- Have the file open and select Save As from the File menu.
- Name your Reader's Notebook: Body Verse file in this format: jsmith_rnbodyverse and save the file to your Documents folder.
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