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- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students create onomatopoeia for a variety of things such as a mean dog, a crying baby or a doorbell ringing after exploring word choice as used by authors in selected books. They complete a Word Choice worksheet that is attached. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th - 12th
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Students watch videos that focus on the ways rhythm, rhyme, and/or sound contribute to meaning in poetry. They research and review poetic devices on the Internet and then create their own poems and recite them to the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students examine the elements of poetry through a variety of lesson experiences in this unit. They read, write, listen to and respond to a number of poems. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students write a class poem based on the use of sound to create effects. They investigate use of onomatopoeia and how to write in a tight structure. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students explore how sound is a powerful part of a poem. They are introduced to literary techniques for the sound of poetry. Students differentiate between stressed and unstressed syllables. They practice presenting a poem with expression. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students explore sensory words in their writing. They create a word bank describing the sounds of the wind and play instruments to make wind sounds. They describe the sounds they hear and revise their word lists based on the sounds. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students interpret Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Bells" and write one stanza of a poem about a modern-day sound imitating Poe's style. Students work in pairs or small groups to write a poem that includes rhyme, alliteration, repetition, onomatopoeia, and mood words. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students identify and analyze the poetic devices of alliteration, metaphors, onomatopoeia, personification, rhyme, and similes. They identify examples of each poetic device in songs, complete a worksheet, and teach the devices to a group of students in the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students explore the use of onomatopoeia using comics. They develop a list of onomatopoeia examples, write sentences, complete a worksheet, and create a comic strip using onomatopoeias. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 8th
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Students study the form of poetry known as onomatopoeia and discuss its significance in poems. They read various poetic examples and then write an onomatopoeia poem themselves. Full Review »
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