Color Poetry(5th grade)

Lindsay R. Scott and Chanda Wright

ECED 4300-BDr. Tonja Root

Fall 2007

Color PoetryPrewriting Stage

5th Grade

Lindsay R. ScottECED 4300-BDr. Tonja Root

Fall 2007

Color Poetry

• A form of poetry with each line beginning with a color.

• Some poems use the same color in each line or a variety of colors.

• Colors are sometimes used as adjectives (description words) and/or focus on sensory descriptions.

• In color poetry you will pick a color and describe or compare things that have that color.

Prewriting Stage

• Choosing a topic: students will choose a topic to write about.

• Considering a function: Students will consider what the function will be when writing. Ex: imaginative, personal

• Considering the audience: Students will choose who they are writing for. Ex: themselves or others

• Considering a form: journal, narrative, poem, etc.

Graphic Organizer for Prewriting Stage

What things LOOK (color)? What things SOUND (color)? What things SMELL (color)?

How does (color) FEEL? What makes YOU FEEL (color)?

What things TASTE (color)? What EXPERIENCES or IDEAS seem

(color)?Can you think of (color) PLACES?

Read Write Think: Color Poems-Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting. Retrieved April 14, 2007 from http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=375

Color Poem Example

GreenGreen is apples, markers, and cool.

Green is the taste of vegetables.Green smells like grass and rain.Green makes me feel envious.

Green is the sound of a lawnmower and a sigh.Green is a garden, forest, and a swamp.

Green is renewal.Green is beginning again.

Green is spring.Read Write Think: Color Poems-Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting. Retrieved April 14, 2007 from http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=375

Prewriting Practice Activity

• As a class, students will choose a color.

• As a class, students will complete graphic organizer (The teacher will complete the graphic organizer on the board for students to follow along individually. )

Prewriting Assessment Activity

• Students will choose a color.• Students will complete graphic

organizer individually.

Color Poetry Drafting Stage

5th Grade

Chanda WrightECED 4300-BDr. Tonja Root

Fall 2007

Color Poetry

• A form of poetry with each line beginning with a color.

• Some poems use the same color in each line or a variety of colors.

• Colors are sometimes used as adjectives (description words) and/or focus on sensory descriptions.

• In color poetry you will pick a color and describe or compare things that have that color.

Drafting Stage

• Students will use graphic organizer to convert ideas into complete sentences forming a color poem.

• Students will not focus on correct spelling and neatness.

• Students may skip lines to leave space for making revisions.

• Draft is not to be used as a final copy.

Green is .... the color of spring. Green is .... renewal.

Green is .... the color of envy. Green is .... a new crayon.

Green tastes like .... a crisp apple. Green smells like .... fresh cut

grass. Green sounds like .... a croaking

frog. Green feels like .... soft, velvety

moss. Green looks like .... shiny emeralds.

Green makes me .... go. Green is .... my favorite color.

Color Poem Example Using the Five Senses

Read Write Think: Color Poems-Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting. Retrieved April 14, 2007 from http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=375

Drafting Practice Activity

• As a class, students will use graphic organizer completed during the prewriting stage to complete a color poem.

Drafting Assessment Activity

• Students will use graphic organizer completed during the prewriting stage to complete their own color poem.