Beth Darby and Lacey Maloy ECED 4300 A Dr. Tonja Root Spring, 2010 Grade 3

Beth Darby Prewriting GPS: ELA3W1 The student demonstrates competency in the writing process. The student m. Pre-writes to generate ideas, develops a rough draft, rereads to revise, and edits to correct.

PLO The students will generate ideas that will assist them in completing a graphic organizer for their concrete poem.

Concrete Poetry Poetry that takes the shape of the object being described Can be a collection of words, letters, and symbols

Prewriting Stage Known as the first stage of the writing process Used to generate words and ideas for topic

Citation for Graphic Organizer Darby, B & Maloy, L. (2010). Concrete Poetry Graphic Organizer. Unpublished graphic organizer, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA.

Graphic Organizer

APA Citation for Example 1 Finley, S. (2004, December 30). All Poetry. Retrieved from 759

Example 1

Practice Activity As a class generate words and ideas about a t-shirt to create a concrete poem Fill in the class’ graphic organizer as each idea is mentioned

Assessment Activity A graphic organizer will be given to each student Students will pull a strip of paper out of a basket that contains a topic Students will be asked to generate ideas and complete their graphic organizer based on the topic chosen

Lacey Maloy Drafting Stage GPS: ELA3W1 The student demonstrates competency in the writing process. The student m. Pre-writes to generate ideas, develops a rough draft, rereads to revise, and edits to correct.

PLO The students will develop a rough draft of their concrete poem using ideas from their graphic organizer.

Concrete Poetry Poetry that takes the shape of the object being described Can be a collection of words, letters, and symbols

Drafting Stage Known as the second stage of the writing process Students use ideas from their graphic organizer to create a rough draft

APA Citation for Example 2 Crum, C. (2008). Greenbrier elementary. Retrieved from s/gbrier/students/2007/shapep. asp

Example 2

Drafting Stage Main focus during this stage is to get ideas down on paper Do not focus on spelling or mechanics

Practice Activity Create a concrete poem in the shape of a t-shirt using the ideas generated from the class’ graphic organizer

Assessment Activity Create concrete poem using graphic organizer Will be written on the topic that was chosen during prewriting