This document provides suggested activities and worksheets for teaching poems from an anthology to Year Four students over 17 weeks. It includes the titles of 8 poems to be covered, along with 2-week activity plans for the poem "Grandma's House". The activities involve identifying rhyming words, reciting stanzas with actions, making a clay model of the house and labeling it, and performing a jazz chant about the poem with gestures. Worksheets are provided for an enrichment activity identifying other rhyming words and for practicing the jazz chant.

1. Contemporary Literature Year Four
Anthology of Poems
Suggested Activities
and
Worksheets
By:
Asmah Hanim Che Ani
SISC+ Perlis
Jabatan Pendidikan Negeri Perlis.

2. Anthology of Poems
Year Four
No. Poems title Duration
1. At the Playground 2 weeks
2. Clap Your Hands 2 weeks
3. Woodpecker 2 weeks
4. Holiday Memories 3 weeks
5. Sand Castle 2 weeks
6. Grandma’s House 2 weeks
7. Noisy Food 2 weeks
8. Sounds Like Magic 2 weeks
Total weeks 17 weeks

4. Grandma’s House
Suggested Activities
Week 1
 About the poem.
 Pupils play ‘I Spy Rhyme’ by spotting words that have the same ending sound. Teacher can
use whole class approach, groups or individual.
 Pupils pick 3 stanzas and recite in groups with actions.
Week 2
 About the poem.
 In groups, pupils make a model of grandma’s house using modelling clay and label the
items.
 In groups, pupils recite jazz chants.

5. Day: ____________ Date: _____________
Grandma’s House
Can you find words in the poem that end with the same sound? Group the words in the
boxes below.
Enrichment activity:
What are other words that rhyme similarly? Group them!
Day: ____________ Date: _____________
Grandma’s House
Recite this jazz chants with your friends. Be creative with the gestures.
ds
ds ds ds

6. Bedroom, hall,
Bedroom, hall,
Bedroom, hall, kitchen
Kitchen, hall, kitchen, hall
Bedroom, hall, kitchen
Grandma’s house,
Grandma’s house,
Very small,
Small house, small house
Pretty small house