Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Transcendentalism: Key Terms
This lesson from a unit on American Transcendentalism focuses on key literary terms that fit the writings of the period and an interactive crossword puzzle using the terms and their definitions.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: Transcendentalism: Emily Dickinson
This lesson from a unit on American Transcendentalism focuses on Emily Dickinson and her poetry. It includes links to a Discovery Education video: "Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886: An Overview of Her Work" (registration required) and four of...
TES Global
Tes: Follower: Seamus Heaney
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint lesson guides students through the analysis of a poem. The poem featured is "Follower" by Seamus Heaney.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Onomatopoeia
This slideshow lesson focuses on the literary device onomatopoeia; it defines it and explains its purpose. It provides a list of word examples and examples used in sentences.
Read Works
Read Works: Lessons: Onomatopoeia
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to identify and describe onomatopoeia in a literary text using the book Old MacDonald Had a Farm.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for Doreen Cronin's early childhood book, CLICK, CLACK, MOO: Cows That Type, is provided on these pages. Seven (or more) character roles are needed in this activity.
Other
Centre for Literacy in Primary Education: Poetryline: Poetic Forms and Devices
An excellent resource for learning about the different forms and devices used in poetry. Each item is linked to its own page which has examples of its use. Many of the pages have videos of authors reading their poems, and some have...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: There Once Was...
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.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: One Minute in Time Poems
The Cure's song "10:15 on a Saturday Night" explains what happens in one slowed-down minute as the singer is waiting for an important phone call, while also utilizing some catchy onomatopoeia to emphasize the seconds ticking by. In this...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: An Onomatopoetic Field Trip
In this lesson, students will develop a story incorporating onomatopoeia and strong word choice.
Other
Spelling police.com: Literary Devices
A simple list of literary terms. Click on each for a definition and examples.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Comic Books to Teach Onomatopoeia
This lesson plan uses comic books to teach elements of onomatopoeia. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
Able Media
Figures of Speech Syntax Exercise
Wonderful exercise uses lines from Book II of Vergil's "Aeneid," to test mastery of rhetorical devices that pertain to syntax. Encourages practice of many skills.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Onomatopoeia Adventures
In this lesson plan, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, by Linda Williams, is used as a mentor text to highlight the trait of word choice. Onamatopoeia is the focus content for this activity. After the reading of the...
TES Global
Blendspace: Rl 5.4 Figurative Language
This twelve-part learning module provides assorted references for figurative language terms. This blendspace provides reproducible charts, flash cards, a game, video tutorial lessons, and rap songs. L.9-10.5 Fig Lang/nuances
Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act. 06: Beep, Beep, Vroom, Vroom
This lesson plan will have students arranging patterns with counters. Students will copy the pattern introduced in Stuart Murphy's Beep, Beep, Vroom, Vroom. Then students will create their own patterns with counters. Pupils will...
TES Global
Blendspace: Figurative Language & Tone
A twelve-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites on figurative language and tone.
Other
Literary Lessons: Onomatopoeia
Definition and origin of onomatopoeia. A humorous perspective on the formation of common words we use in everyday speech and the relationship between words and the way they sound.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Onomatopoeia: A Figurative Language Mini Lesson
Contains plans for a minilesson that teaches about onomatopoeia using Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Bells." In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lesson as well as assessment...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language Worksheets
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying different types of figurative language. Reinforcement is provided through the worksheets, quizzes, video game links, and online sites for the following types...
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "My Noisy Brother" Poetry Theater
In "My Noisy Brother," students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework! students will dramatize a poem about a child who imitates the annoying sounds that his brother...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Deploying Style Effectively
This lesson plan focuses on rhetorical devices and how to use them effectively in public speaking. These include alliteration, antithesis, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, personification, repetition and parallelism, and simile and metaphor.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Onomatopoeia Lesson Plans for 10th Graders
This site offers links to lesson plans and ideas for teaching Onomatopoeia to high school students.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Sound of Language
Can you spot writers' use of alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia that add sound effects to their language?