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Neh: Edsit Ement: Writing Poetry Like Pros
By looking to examples of popular poetry in a variety of forms, students learn to analyze, appreciate, and synthesize poetry in the classroom. "Writing Poetry Like Pros" provides several links to poetry texts and suggestions for creating...
TES Global
Tes: Writing Your Own Poetry
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students can write a poem that incorporates personification and similes with the help of this template.
TES Global
Blendspace: 3rd Grade Poetry Investigation
A learning module with thirty-one links to texts, videos, images, websites, and slides on different types and forms of poetry as well as poetic imagery, rhyme, figurative language use, and more.
Read Works
Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Poetry
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which young scholars use two provided poems to learn to identify and understand the use of similes and metaphors in poetry. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice,...
TES Global
Blendspace: Poetry Power
A learning module with fifteen links to a slideshow, videos, texts, and websites on elements of poetry, figurative language, and different types of poetry.
Read Works
Read Works: 4th Grade Lesson: Similes and Metaphors
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad to learn to identify and understand the use of simile and metaphor in...
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Poem "Simile" [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for "Simile", a poem, is provided on this script. Eleven character roles are needed in this performance.
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Abcteach: Onomatopoeia Form
Printable form to reinforce student's understanding of onomatopoeia.
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Abcteach: Similes [Pdf]
This printable worksheet tutorial tests your knowledge of writing snow similes.
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Class Flow: Proverbs
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart the student identifies the characteristics of various genres and produces evidence of reading that responds to and analyzes the effects of sound, figurative language, and graphics in...