This document provides an overview and lesson plan for a spring season language lesson in elementary school. The objectives are to listen to spring-themed stories and rhymes, revisit sight words, introduce new CVC words, read aloud a story board, do a journal activity, sing rhymes and songs about spring, introduce related vocabulary, and discuss spring signs and themes through questions. The plan includes before, during and after reading discussion prompts to encourage critical thinking about the spring topic.

1. Spring Season
Language Overview for – 'Out in the Garden'
|Objectives – |
|Listening to stories and rhymes on 'Out in the Garden' |
|Sight Words – has, can |
|Revisit sight word – I, |
|CVC words – an family words...show more content...
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|Read aloud – Story board on display. |
|Journal for pre writing & illustrations. |
|Rhyme & songs –Spring |
|Vocabulary |
|While previewing the book, reinforce the vocabulary words that children have been introduced to
for e.g.: I spy games– Picture & names of |
|the words, |
|Theme related word – Spring, rainbow, flower, grass |
|Describing word – green |
|Rhyming words – rose – nose, book – look, hand – sand |
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2. Spring Discussion Questions
10) Complete closing "Today friends we began to talk about spring, and the different things that
occur during this time. Can you tell me one thing you learned about spring today?" 11) Call on at
least four students to answer question. 12) "Boys and girls are objective for today was to learn
about spring. Do you think we met our objective?" 13) Students should answer "Yes!" 14) Why
did we meet our objective? 15) Call on students to answer. Discussion Prompts for Critical and
Creative Thinking (Questions that you will pose that lead to critical thinking) Before reading the
story: Who knows what the four seasons are? What season are we in? While reading the story: For
questions to ask during the story refer to step five in instructional plan....show more content...
Can you tell me one sign of spring? During small groups: Teacher: Let's look at the chart of
different pictures. What do you see here that is not a sign of spring? Possible student response:
Leaves falling. Teacher: Good, why do you say leaves falling? Possible student response: That
happens in the fall. More questions: Why did you pick bees as a sign of spring? I see you put a baby
bunny on your page. What other baby animals could you of
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3. Spring Break
Spring break is supposed to be a great time from the second it begins, until the second it ends.
Now there is always that boring time it takes to get to wherever you may be going no matter how far
that may be it is always the least fun of the entire vacation. My last spring break's car ride happened
to be the least fun by far of any trip I have taken up to this point in my life. It all started out not so
good before I had even left to pick up my buddies who were riding with me for the trip. My good
friend Josh had came to stay with me the night before we left for Panama City Beach, Florida. We
both figured this would save us some time the next day since I already had to pick up another guy
on the way to Florida. That night, after Josh got...show more content...
There were points where we were only going 20 mph on the interstate. We braved the storm and did
not stop once. Our minds were too set on the hopes and dreams of spring break. After making it
through two states worth of driving 20 mph in a snow storm we were a bit behind schedule in
meeting our friend at his place in Florida. However, we were still much ahead of the rest of our
group who had just left Indiana. As we entered the sunshine state we called Jake to see where we
needed to go from there. He gave us some directions as he took shots in a bar which made us
skeptical as to how accurate his directions were in the first place. Although we were unsure of the
accuracy of the directions given to us by our drunken friend we took the roads we were told to
take. Unfortunately, our fears came to life when we wound up 2 hours in the complete opposite
direction of where we needed to be. At this point, it was 4 a.m. Jake was sure he had told us to go
the other way of what he had told us. Even to this day he swears he told us the right way we just
turned the opposite direction. Our only option was to turn around and drive back 4 hours the way
we came to get to his house to get some shut eye. We made great time getting back on track and
arriving in Jakes town. It was now around 7 am in Florida and Jake had stopped answering his
phone an hour ago. We had no idea where to go now that we were actually in the right town. All we
could think about was
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4. Spring and Fall
I first came across "Spring and Fall"–as I did a similar poem, Frost's "Nothing Gold Can
Say"–through two teen movies of the 1980's. The Frost poem was featured in Copola's adaptation
of the popular S.E. Hinton young adult novel, The Outsiders, and Hopkins' in Vision Quest, a
forgettable movie about a young man searching to find himself by taking on the unbeatable state
champion in a wrestling match. (Our hero beats him!) In both films, the themes of the pains and
triumphs of growing up are presented in familiar formulas, and the poems lend a sense of gravity to
that theme. In any case, lots of my friends in high school, who never would have read poetry
otherwise, knew these poems and could recognize them, having heard them in a...show more
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If we stress the "It," the line still moves quickly with four trochees, leading to what we expect will
be the end of the thought, an end–stopped rhyme, "colder." Here Hopkins' enjambs "colder" with
"by and by," thus making us move along to the next line, not stopping for a breath after "colder."
But he's not finished there; the use of internal rhyme in line 7, "By and by" with "sigh," creates
another sound effect that invites our eyes and ears to continue on. When the pace slows down a
bit, through switching back to the iambic feet of "nor spare a sigh," this serves to set up the
punch of the central line of the poem, "Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie." I could not find
"leafmeal" in the O.E.D., and later read that it was Hopkins' own coinage . Placed as the exact
middle word of the poem, "leafmeal" takes on a significant importance for both its sound quality
and for its multiple meanings. Breaking it down, the words "leaf" and "leave" are valuable in this
poem. These words have a number of different senses, and I wonder if Hopkins isn't exploiting
them all, getting all the meaning he can in such a short work. "Leaf" can refer to the leaves of a
tree, but also to the leafing of precious metals, such as gold leafing, or the leaf from a book. Also,
"meal" can be ground up grain, such as oatmeal or cornmeal, which is close to the sense we see
here. In addition, it's possible to look
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