Playful Limericks Fun

Grade: 1st Grade ESL

Subject: English Language Arts (ELA)

Duration: 50 minutes

Class Size: 12 students

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

• Recognize and identify the rhyme pattern AABBA in simple limericks.
• Demonstrate understanding of rhythm and rhyme through listening and repeating limericks.
• Create a simple limerick collaboratively, using familiar vocabulary.
• Develop phonemic awareness by distinguishing words that rhyme.

Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Alignment

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.2

• Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.2.A

• Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.2.B

• Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.2.C

• Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.4

• Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.3

• Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order