Jumping Rope by Shel Silverstein

Above is a copy of the poem I read to my class by Shel Silverstein. The goal of this lesson was for children to make text-to-self connections and display their comprehension skills.

Children reflected upon the following: why they think he got tangled? Did he really know how to jump rope? Why does he have no hope anymore after jumping rope? How will he get untangled? What would you do if you were tangled?

Children also explored using emotion to describe how they would feel if they got tangled. We wrote the emotions they felt on the board. Children came up with emotions such as "mad", "sad",  "frustrated", and "scared"

The children in my class did a good job at making text-to-self connections. They were easily able to identify what they would do if they got tangled in a jump rope. In the future I would like to see children in the classroom make other connections such as text-to-text and text-to-world. These may be more challenging (especially text-to-world) however, with the appropriate text and prompting I do believe that they could make such connections.