-To begin this unit, students will explore various books and photographs of space and the moon to activate prior knowledge.
-Then as a class, a K-W-L chart will be created. Students will be asked to share what they already know (or think they know) about space. The teacher should write each response on a large piece of chart paper placed under the K column. Students’ names should be written beside each student response. Then students will be asked to share what they know (or think they know) specifically about the moon.
-Next, students will share what they want to learn about the moon, which will be listed in the W column.
-The book What the Moon is Like will be read aloud to the group. Students may add things they already learned about the moon through the book under the L column.
-Then students will begin to write a couplet about the moon. Students should brainstorm a list of words or phrases that could be used to describe the moon. Read aloud examples of couplets and discuss the rhyming patterns and style of couplets. Individually, students will begin their draft of a couplet about the moon using the list of brainstorming words to guide them.