Fresh-Picked Poetry Activities: Poetry Mentor Text Unit for Grades 3-5

Description

These Fresh-Picked Poetry activities for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade give you a week of lessons on reading poetry, writing and revising a poem, figurative language, and colons. Michelle Schaub’s collection follows a day at the farmers’ market, and every poem gives students a different model to study, which makes it a natural fit for National Poetry Month in April.

This unit gives you a full week of detailed lessons for reading, writing, and grammar, with a week-at-a-glance plan and Google Slides versions of the activities where they apply. The book is not included, so check your library or look for an online read-aloud. The plans cover one week, but the book has enough variety to keep you going much longer.

How the Fresh-Picked Poetry activities work:

Over one week, the lessons move through four parts:

• Grammar: a mentor sentence lesson on colons.
• Reading: a close reading lesson for poetry and lessons on analyzing the elements of a poem.
• Writing: students write a poem, then revise it for figurative language and rhyme.
• Practice: an original poem I wrote about harvesting a garden, for more practice and assessment.

What’s included:

• A week-at-a-glance plan
• 11 detailed, explicit lessons with answer keys and suggestions:
  • A mentor sentence lesson on colons
  • A lesson to guide close reading of poetry
  • Lessons on analyzing poetry elements, then using them in a poem
  • Lessons to apply revision skills
• An original poem about harvesting a garden
• Samples to use as models or teacher reference
• Printables for skill practice
• Short assessments
• Google Slides versions of the activities where they apply

Why use a mentor text?

One good picture book can carry grammar, reading, and writing at the same time. Students hear the story once and return to it for each skill, so your read-aloud time does more than one job.

Part of the Mentor Text Mini-Club:

This unit is one of six weeklong units in my Mentor Text Mini-Club by Jivey, Seasonal Edition for Grades 3-5, which also includes a bonus unit you can’t buy on its own.

It follows the same structure as my Everything but the Books units, so it fits right in if you already teach with them, like the Opinion, Inform, Narrative Integration Bundle for Grades 4-5.

Want more poetry? Try my Vulture Verses activities for Valentine’s Day or Close Reading Poems for Grades 4-6.

This purchase is for one teacher. Please don’t share the files with other teachers. Thank you!

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