A Bear of a Poem (Sample Lesson) Critique

The structure of this lesson was greatly done and I believe it touched base with several features of ELA instruction such as reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language. I love how the teacher created sessions of the lesson plan and in the objectives how she defined what a found poem is. This is important because I believe I would be able to connect this to Social Studies by grabbing a short simple read and having student dissect it into a fun poem on important facts. I enjoyed reading about small reading group instruction and images of how I would connect Social Studies involved. I believe if students annotate a reading and vocabulary terms they will be able to select words that can reach a fun poem.

Reading: Instructing students to read a book and then share the readings in groups is effective to students for them to learn from each other.
Writing: After selecting words from the text students were to begin creating a poem which makes them engaged into cognitive thinking and development.
Speaking & Listening: The engagement of the class was pretty great because this allowed students to be active and play out their poems among themselves.
Language: I believe with careful selection of vocabulary students were made to work on comprehend how they structured words into the poems by creating a well structured reading assignment. It is all about risks they take in order for them to feel comfortable using words to act it out or to even be a poet.