• Have learners sing some familiar patriotic songs.
• Have learners listen to you sing a selected song.
• Guide learners to sing lines of the song with appropriate stress and
rhythm.
• Let them sing individually and in groups.
• Using questions discuss the central message of the target song: Who
composed this song? What is the song telling us?
• Invite individuals to explain the central message(s) of the song.
B5.1.3.1.1. Respond to poems by discussing their central messages and expressing own opinion
• Ask learners to recite a poem of their choice with actions.
• Choose a poem appropriate for the grade level.
• Recite and act out the poem as learners listen attentively to you
and observe.
• Allow some individual learners to recite as others listen.
• Lead learners to recite lines of the poem with correct stress,
clapping and tapping out the rhythm.