The document provides teaching materials and activities for a poem about a woodpecker tapping on a tree. It includes 4 activities:
1) An activity where students recite the poem aloud and discuss its use of rhyme and alliteration.
2) A picture puzzle activity where students put together a puzzle showing a woodpecker and discuss its characteristics.
3) An activity where students write their own version of the poem creatively in a worksheet.
4) A role-playing activity where students imagine a dialogue between a woodpecker and caterpillar mentioned in the poem.
The document provides teaching materials and activities for a poem about a woodpecker tapping on a tree. It includes 4 activities:
1) An activity where students recite the poem aloud and discuss its use of rhyme and alliteration.
2) A picture puzzle activity where students put together a puzzle showing a woodpecker and discuss its characteristics.
3) An activity where students write their own version of the poem creatively in a worksheet.
4) A role-playing activity where students imagine a dialogue between a woodpecker and caterpillar mentioned in the poem.
The document provides teaching materials and activities for a poem about a woodpecker tapping on a tree. It includes 4 activities:
1) An activity where students recite the poem aloud and discuss its use of rhyme and alliteration.
2) A picture puzzle activity where students put together a puzzle showing a woodpecker and discuss its characteristics.
3) An activity where students write their own version of the poem creatively in a worksheet.
4) A role-playing activity where students imagine a dialogue between a woodpecker and caterpillar mentioned in the poem.
The document provides teaching materials and activities for a poem about a woodpecker tapping on a tree. It includes 4 activities:
1) An activity where students recite the poem aloud and discuss its use of rhyme and alliteration.
2) A picture puzzle activity where students put together a puzzle showing a woodpecker and discuss its characteristics.
3) An activity where students write their own version of the poem creatively in a worksheet.
4) A role-playing activity where students imagine a dialogue between a woodpecker and caterpillar mentioned in the poem.
3. Pupils recite the poem together with expression. Stress on the correct
pronunciation, intonation and stress points.
4. Display the poem on the board. Highlight the use of rhyming and
alliteration.
Rhyming words: tree/see, win/in
Alliteration: tapping and tree
5. Pupils recite the poem together. Encourage them to recite the poem
faster each time.
6. Pupils are divided into teams and they can compete against each other.
7. Time the pupils and see which team can say it the fastest correctly.
8. Pupils can perform the poem during English Week/Day.
This is a fun and easy poem to recite. The more often the pupils
practice reciting this poem out loud, the faster and smoother they
will be able to recite it.
Tell them to take about three deep breaths before they start
reciting. They might be able to recite the whole poem on a single
breath of air.
Educational Emphases
Multiple Intelligences (Musical)
Glossary
Rhyming: Words that rhyme
Alliteration: Repetition of an initial consonant sound
e.g.: tapping at the tree
74 Activity 2: Picture Puzzle
Steps:
1. Divide the pupils into groups of five.
2. Hand out envelopes containing a picture puzzle to each group (either puzzle 1 or puzzle 2, or both to make it more challenging) . 3. Ask the pupils to put the puzzle together and paste the complete puzzle on a piece of construction paper. (The pupils can be given a time frame and the activity can be turned into a competition) 4. Pupils describe the picture formed and talk about the characteristics of the woodpecker with the help of questions posed by the teacher. e.g. What is the name of this bird? What does it eat? 5.
6. Ask pupils to look at the illustration of the poem and guess who is talking.
7. Give pupils a picture (Worksheet 1).
8. Ask pupils to cut out the pictures in Part B and paste them in Part A to
9. Pupils copy the poem creatively in Part A.
10. Display all the poems in the room. Pupils can do a gallery walk.
Glossary
Gallery walk: Texts or pictures are placed on differe
class. The pupils walk from station to station. At each station, pupils review the text or pictures. After a few minutes, the group then rotates, clockwise, to the next station. The rotation continues until all the texts or pictures have been reviewed. Educational Emphases
1. Get the pupils to recite the poem expressively.
2. Tell the pupils to look at the picture in the Woodpecker poem.
3. Ask pupils these to encourage them to talk about the poem.
Example : Who do you think lives in the tree?
What type of bird is it? Describe the bird. What names can you give the bird? (Mr. Woody etc.) What does the bird eat? What is the bird doing? Why does the caterpillar say that it is going on a holiday? What will happen if the caterpillar is at home? 4. Call out two volunteers to role play this dialogue:
Dialogue
Woodpecker : Hello. Is anyone home?
Caterpillar Woodpecker : I thought I saw your clothes hanging outside? Caterpillar : Oh! Those are not mine. Woodpecker : But your milk bottles are outside. Caterpillar Woodpecker : Where are you? Caterpillar ve gone for a holiday.
5. Distribute Worksheet 2 to the pupils.
6. Tell pupils that they are going to work in pairs to create a dialogue
between the woodpecker and caterpillar (or any other character they
choose). Encourage them to create dialogues based on the subject matter
of the poem (the caterpillar is trying to protect itself from its predator-
