SESSION PLAN
OASIS Intergenerational Tutoring Program
Talk Together – Write Together – Read Together
Date_____________________
Student___________________
Tutor_____________________
__Talk about an activity you are sharing
__Write together
__Read the student’s writing together
__Work with the student’s writing
__Review journal writing and vocabulary words
__Read a book to your student
1. Follow the directions for the enclosed “Animal Snackers Bingo” and play one
or two games with your student.
2. Read Animal Snackers by Betsy Lewin to your student. Take time to explain
unfamiliar words such as “carnivorous,” “derring-do,” and “brine.” Also, you
may want to share some of the “Animal Facts” at the back of the book. Read
all or parts of the book again, asking the student to name the rhyming words.
3. Mention a few other animals or birds with which the student may be familiar –
giraffe, parrot, seal, frog. Ask her to choose one, and then help her to write a
simple, four-line poem about the animal’s favorite snack. As an alternative, she
may choose to write a four-line poem about her favorite snack. Write the poem
in her journal.
4. Read the poem together, alternating lines. Have her read it all by herself.
5. Make a copy of the enclosed poetry page. Read the poems with your student.
Help her notice that the rhyming pattern is different in the first poem (first and
third lines, second and fourth) than it is in the second (first and second lines,
third and fourth). Each line in the third poem has rhyming words. Ask the
student to circle the rhyming words in the first poem with a purple crayon or
marker. Have her underline the rhyming words in the second poem in green.
Have her put a yellow X through the rhyming words in the third poem.
6. Are there rhyming words in any previous journal writing?
Animal Snackers Bingo
Directions: Make three copies of the bingo card (one for the tutor and one for the student); cut
out the individual squares of the third card. Place the cut-out squares face down on the
desk/table. Take turns drawing one card at a time. If the square contains a picture of an
animal, the player must find the name of that animal and cover it with the picture. If the
square contains the name of an animal, the player must find the picture of that animal and
cover it with the name. The first player who covers the most squares wins, OR, the first player
to cover five squares across, down, or diagonally wins.
panda
moose
penguin
gorilla
zebra
cat
giraffe
tiger
crocodile
seal
parrot
frog
The Purple Cow
I never saw a purple cow,
I never hope to see one.
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I’d rather see than be one!
Gelett Burgess
Way Down South
Way down south where bananas grow,
A grasshopper stepped on an elephant’s toe.
The elephant said, with tears in his eyes,
‘Pick on somebody your own size.’
Anonymous
Four Seasons
Spring is showery, flowery, bowery.
Summer: hoppy, choppy, poppy.
Autumn: wheezy, sneezy, freezy.
Winter: slippy, drippy, nippy.
Anonymous