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Curated OER

Figuring Out Frost

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read "The Runaway" by Robert Frost and analyze it for its literal and symbolic meanings. They compare their personal experiences with the poet's suggestions about youthful attitudes and behaviors. Some nice worksheets are...
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Curated OER

Comparatively Speaking

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice creating similes and metaphors together as a class. Individually students create similes and metaphors and illustrate them.
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Curated OER

Alphabet Books

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Pupils work with a partner from a different grade level to brainstorm, draft, edit, illustrate and publish alphabet-themed books. They take turns reading the books to each other and conference with a teacher to review their work.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Alliteration in Headline Poems

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson, students will learn or review the topic of "alliteration" in writing. Then each student will create a 25-word headline poem that contains at least three examples of alliteration. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Alliteration All Around

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson introduces learners to the concept of alliteration through the works of the author Pamela Duncan Edwards. Students interpret her illustrations and then create their own alliteration, sharing with the class.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: All About Alliteration: Responding to Literature Through Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students will listen to a book, A My Name Is by Alice Lyne, and they will learn about alliteration and alliterative words. After reading the book, students will use print and online resources to brainstorm their own...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Noodle Alliteration

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
This lesson allows students an opportunity to explore the dictionary and thesaurus to write creative alliterations about pasta after reading Jack Prelutsky's poem, "Spaghetti, Spaghetti."
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Producing Poetic Podcasts (Hey, That's Alliteration!)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this culminating lesson plan for a poetry unit, learners will create a video podcast that summarizes a specific poem, analyzes the poet's use of literary elements, and infers the meaning of the poem (theme). The podcast must use a...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Analyzing Poetic Devices: Robert Hayden and Theodore Roethke

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners examine the relationship of poetic form and content, shaped by alliteration, consonance, repetition, and rhythm, in two poems about fatherhood: Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz."
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Literary Terms Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
This is a lesson plan for teaching the seven literary terms used in poetry: simile, metaphor, alliteration, imagery, hyperbole, personification, and onomatopoeia.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: There Once Was...

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Part 2 of this tutorial on limerick writing demonstrates the importance of form (meter and rhyme) in limerick poetry using the exemplary and amusing work of Edward Lear.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Chants and Street Rhymes [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Four pages of with chants and street rhymes. Three of the pages are reproducible examples and information useful to students, and one page gives lesson ideas for teachers.

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