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Chapter 5 · Period 1 of 4 · 40 min

Meet the Animals: First Encounter with the Poem

Oracy · recitation

The poem's anaphoric refrain — 'Who are you? And what do you do?' — makes it easy for students to join in almost immediately; encourage full-voice participation from the first round. If some students are uncertain of an animal's response lines, accept partial replies and build confidence before expecting the full stanza.

0–8Teacher reads the poem aloud from Textbook pp.34–35, pointing to each animal stanza. Students listen and observe the repeating question and each animal's answer.
8–18Teacher models the call-and-response: teacher asks 'Who are you? And what do you do?' for the birds stanza and students echo the animal reply. The class works through all six animals — birds, monkeys, dogs, cats, elephants, lions — in this pattern.
18–30Fun with Words — What do You do? ("call-and-response chant, six animals, whole class"). Students are divided into two groups: one group chants the question lines and the other chants each animal's reply, switching roles midway.
30–40Quick round: teacher points to individual students or rows and asks 'Who are you? And what do you do?' — each student or group replies as a chosen animal from memory, without the book.
Assessment

Learning outcome. Student recites and performs a poem using call-and-response and actions as the vehicle.

Listen carefully. Your teacher will say the name of an animal from the poem 'What do You do?'. Choose what that animal does.

  • A We chirp and sing.
  • B We jump and swing.
  • C We mew in the dark.
  • D We roar and hunt.

C. We mew in the dark.

What each wrong option reveals

  • A Student may be recalling birds rather than cats, confusing two early stanzas.
  • B Student may be recalling monkeys, mixing up the animals' action lines.
  • D Student may be recalling lions, the final stanza, rather than cats.
Chapter 5 · 4 periods of 40 min

Also saved as 2 periods.

  • 2Act It Out: Animal Actions and Call-and-Response
    Oracy
  • 3Pairs Perform: Independent Call-and-Response
    Oracy
  • 4Bringing the Poem to Life: Chapter Synthesis
    Synthesis
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