TES Global
Blendspace: Poetry
A six-part learning module with links to texts and videos on figurative language in poetry.
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.
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.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Colorful Sensory Poems
This lesson allows students to explore color - both in literal and figurative terms. Students will read books about color, discuss the emotion involved with color, and incorporate color metaphors to write poems using the graphic...
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...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Literary Terms Lesson Plan
This is a lesson plan for teaching the seven literary terms used in poetry: simile, metaphor, alliteration, imagery, hyperbole, personification, and onomatopoeia.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Moon Phaser [Pdf]
For this activity, 4th graders will study the moon for a period of one month and learn to identify each major moon phase. They will then describe the moon through poems, haikus, and similes.
abcteach
Abcteach: Similes [Pdf]
This printable worksheet tutorial tests your knowledge of writing snow similes.
ClassFlow
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...
abcteach
Abcteach: Onomatopoeia Form
Printable form to reinforce student's understanding of onomatopoeia.