Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook by Shel Silverstein

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Theme:

Poetry

Grades:

3 - 5

Subject:

Reading and Language Arts

Duration:

One class session

Standards
& Goals:

Virginia State Learning Standards

  • The student will analyze oral participation in small group activities.
  • The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of fiction, narrative nonfiction and poetry.
  • The student will write narratives, descriptions and explanations.

Note that standards in this lesson plan are for example only. This lesson can be easily adapted to meet your state's specific standards.

Objectives:

Students will:
  • Read or listen to different poems from Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook by Shel Silverstein.
  • Construct meaning from the poems with nonsense words based on context clues.
  • Recreate their own poems using nonsense words.
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