Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

A Race With Grace: Sports Poetry in Motion

Subject Area

English Language Arts

Grade(s)

3

Overview

Can athletes' moves be described as beautiful? How are grace, beauty, and aesthetics expressed through movement? These and many other questions will provide the framework for students' exploration of poetry in motion of athletes who participate in a variety of sports. Examining examples from their own experiences and from popular media, students learn about the aesthetic elements of athletics. After viewing images of various athletes, students create a class word wall with adjectives that describe movement. Students then write in reflective journals, view and interpret media, conduct Internet research, take digital photographs, and create original poems. As a culminating activity, the teacher presents students' poetry to the class in a multimedia presentation.

    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 3

    ELA21.3.R3

    Expand background knowledge and build vocabulary through discussion, reading, and writing.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.3.R3

    Vocabulary

    • Background knowledge
    • Vocabulary
    • Discussion

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Relating experiences through discussions, reading, and writing will help build background knowledge and improve vocabulary.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Connect new concepts to prior experiences to increase background knowledge through discussions, reading, and writing.
    • Construct the meaning of words through discussions, reading, and writing.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Background knowledge can increase by relating experiences to new ideas, topics, and words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
    • Vocabulary will increase by constructing the meaning of words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 3

    ELA21.3.3

    Apply oral literacy skills by participating in a variety of oral language activities.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.3.3

    Vocabulary

    • Oral language activities
    • Oral literacy skills

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Oral literacy skills include speaking, listening, and comprehending.
    • Oral language activities are those activities in which speakin, listening, and understanding are required.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Apply oral literacy skills when participating in various oral language activities, such as plays, dramas, choral readings, oral reports.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • They can learn, practice, and apply oral literacy skills by participating in a variety of oral language activities.
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 3

    ELA21.3.14

    Describe word relationships and nuances in word meanings, including relating them to their opposites and distinguishing shades of meaning in similar or related words, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.3.14

    Vocabulary

    • Describe
    • Word relationships
    • Nuances
    • Opposites
    • Distinguishing
    • Shades of meaning
    • Similar words
    • Related words
    • Nouns
    • Verbs
    • Adjectives

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
    • Words with opposite meanings are antonyms, and words with similar meanings are synonyms.
    • A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.
    • A verb expresses an action or state of being.
    • An adjective describes a noun or pronoun.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Describe the relationships between words and nuances in word meanings.
    • Describe how the meaning of words are alike or different.
    • Describe the nuances of words that have different shades of meaning.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Writers and speakers should carefully select words to convey specific meanings, ideas, and relationships.
    • Words have relationships with other words and words have subtle differences that can be distinguished within text.
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 3

    ELA21.3.42

    Write poetry or prose in response to visual images to interpret their meanings.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.3.42

    Vocabulary

    • Poetry
    • Prose
    • Visual images
    • Interpret

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Poetry is a genre of text that uses distinctive style and rhythm to aid in the expression of feelings, while prose is written in ordinary language.
    • Writing can be created in response to visual images.
    • Visual images carry meaning to viewers.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Write poetry or prose after viewing visual images to explain their meaning.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Visual images can inspire them to write poetry or prose to describe their feelings and explain the image's meaning.
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