Title: Have You Ever Seen?
Tobias Shamtul
Subject: Reading Workshop
Objectives
1. SWAT relate ideas expressed in a poem to
personal experience.
NJCCCS: 3.1.3.G.6 Language Arts Literacy: Discuss underlying theme or message in interpreting
fiction.
Materials
• Have You Ever Seen? And
Other Poems to Share
Method/Procedure
1. Have students come to the carpet with
their Writer’s Notebook and a pencil.
2. Remind students that one of the types of
questions they will see on the NJ ASK is
called a poem-linked prompt.
3. Explain that for a poem-linked prompt…
a. the students are given a poem, and
then they are to write about a topic
related to the poem
4. Explain that we will be practicing this
today as class.
5. Show the cover to Have You Ever Seen?
And Other Poems to Share
a. Ask the students to predict what they
think the poems in this book might
talk about.
6. Show the table of contents and ask
students if they remember what other
books we’ve read that have had a
contents table.
a. Reptiles, Flashy Fantastic Rainforest
Frogs, etc.
7. Explain that we will first read a few
poems to get into “poem mood”, but that
we will come back to one to think about
it some more.
8. Read the following poems, stopping to
talk about the theme of each poem and
Evaluation
Reflection
Date: Tuesday, March 04, 2008
2. SWAT exercise test-taking skills in
preparation for the NJ ASK4.
Reciprocal
Teaching:
• Predicting
• Questioning
• Clarifying
• Summarizing
having students relate concepts from the
poem to their experience.
a. “What Did I Dream?”
b. “Have You Ever Seen?”
c. “Old Man of Peru”
d. “A Young Farmer of Leeds”
9. Using the poem “A Young Farmer of
Leeds”, have students write a sentence
about a time when they were afraid to
eat something.
a. On the whiteboard, write “When I was
little, I was afraid of eating eggs. I
thought a giant mother chicken would
come, rip the roof off my house, and
eat me for having eaten her babies.
Then I grew older and learned that
giant mother chickens don’t exist.
Now I’m not afraid anymore of giant
mother chickens. But don’t ask me to
eat a hamburger. I don’t want any
giant mother cows coming to my
house.”
10. Have a few students respond by reading
their own sentences.
11. Return to pg.2 and reread “What Did I
Dream?”
a. Have students return to their desks.
 1. Objective 1 was eval’ed in #10.
2. Objective 2 was eval’ed in #10.

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