This is a lesson plan for teaching the seven literary terms used in poetry: simile, metaphor, alliteration, imagery, hyperbole, personification, and onomatopoeia.

In this lesson, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith is used as the mentor text. Students will explore numbers and the properties of these numbers. Students will then write a math story, using the explored numbers, and incorporate...

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.