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First Encounter: Read-Aloud and Poem Exploration
Reading · read-aloud
This is the class's first encounter with the poem, so the read-aloud should be unhurried and expressive — modelling the game's energy through pace and stress. The poem's rhyme scheme (round/sound, throw/go, free/see, skies/flies, fun/sun) makes it very accessible for Grade V students, so invite them to notice the rhyming pairs rather than pointing them out first.
0–5Teacher invites students to share what outdoor games they know, briefly collecting names aloud to build curiosity about the poem's subject.
5–18Teacher reads the poem 'Gilli Danda' aloud expressively, tracking lines on the board or textbook (pp.79–80), pausing at the end of each stanza to let the sound settle.
18–30Teacher reads the poem a second time, inviting students to follow along in their books and tap the rhythm quietly on their desks, noticing rhyming pairs.
30–40Teacher leads a whole-class brief sharing: students name one image or word from the poem that they liked and say why in a single sentence.
Learning outcome. Student locates evidence, infers meaning, and interprets imagery using a poem as the vehicle.
Read the lines on Textbook page 79 beginning "The small gilli, up high it flies." Which two details in these lines tell us that the children are playing outside in the open air?
- A The bright blue skies and the golden rays of the sun.
- B The laughter of the children and the game's rules.
- C The number of players and the size of the playground.
- D The stick and the small gilli.
A. The bright blue skies and the golden rays of the sun.
What each wrong option reveals
- B Student is drawing on general knowledge about games rather than reading the imagery in this stanza.
- C Student is inferring details not present in the poem, missing the specific sky and sun imagery.
- D Student is focusing on the game's equipment rather than the imagery that signals an outdoor setting.
Also saved as 11 periods or 15 periods.
- 2Choral Reading and Rhythm Work
Reading - 3Comprehension Discussion — Understanding the Poem
Reading - 4Relating the Poem to Personal Experience and Prior Knowledge
Reading - 5Think and Discuss — Outdoor Play and Imagination
Oracy - 6Oral Presentation — Describing a Group Game
Oracy - 7Listen and Respond — Action Game with the Poem
Oracy - 8Prefixes — Un- and Re-
Word Work - 9Abstract and Concrete Nouns — Sorting Activity
Word Work - 10Possessive Pronouns — Fill-in Practice
Word Work - 11Dictionary Work and Sentence Writing
Writing - 12Sentence Rearrangement — Forming Questions
Writing - 13Antonyms in Context — Circle the Odd Word
Writing - 14Make a Gilli Danda from Waste Material
Beyond Text - 15Spellathon — Word-Making from a Letter Wheel
Beyond Text - 16Riddle — Think It Through
Beyond Text - 17Poem Recitation and Expressive Performance
Reading + Oracy - 18Chapter Synthesis — Gilli Danda: Bringing It All Together
Synthesis
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