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Curated OER

Metaphors

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this metaphor worksheet, students make a "word card" with the word metaphor for their vocabulary bank, then determine whether statement from The Dragonslayer are similes or metaphors, 
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Curated OER

Solid Waste

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students examine how to use their vocabulary, writing skills, and creative thinking to address environmental concerns in this unit. They write messages to using creative writing to address the issues of solid waste and recycling.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How To Identify Figurative Language

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students investigate writing techniques by analyzing a chart. In this figurative language lesson, students define similes, metaphors and identify the difference between them and personification. Students demonstrate their understanding...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Alphabet Books

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students 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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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Fantasy and Science Fiction: Science Fiction Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on science fiction poetry and the use of the literary techniques, alliteration and assonance. It features links to two Vimeo videos on alliteration, the Science Fiction Poetry Association website, and WiseGEEK: "What...
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Lesson Plan
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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Lesson Plan
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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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Alliteration All Around

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson introduces students 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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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts: Approaching Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This instructional activity focuses on the how to approach the analysis of poetry. It provides a series of student activities such as having students read and compare a draft and the final version of William Blake's "Tyger" which is...
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Lesson Plan
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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Lesson Plan
Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Poetry for the Elementary Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Site contains a narrative and three lesson plans. These plans are designed to assist learners with various aspects of poetry. This site discusses strategies which enable students to effectively, memorize, recite, and correctly pronounce...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

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

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this culminating lesson for a poetry unit, students 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 talk...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Anglo Saxon Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Anglo-Saxon poetry including its elegiac tone, exile themes, and use of figurative language and poetic techniques like alliteration, caesura and kennings. It features links to three poems, each in at least two...
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Lesson Plan
British Library

British Library: Robert Browning: Creative Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Looking at three of Robert Browning's poems, students will be encouraged to think critically and create compositions that explore complex themes.[PDF]
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Primary
Josie's Poems

Josie's Poems: "An Aggressive Alligator"

For Students 3rd - 6th
A poem that uses alliteration to tell about an aligator.
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Handout
Other

Forgotten Ground Regained: Viking Verse

For Students 9th - 10th
This site shares poems written in the language and style of the Vikings. Translations and links to other poems that relate to the Viking theme and verse formats are also included on this site.
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Primary
Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: "Morning Song" by Sylvia Plath

For Students 9th - 10th
This site shares the poem "Morning Song" from the author Sylvia Plath. Alliteration and rhyme are prevelant in this poem, just as these poetic devices are present in her most famous novel, The Bell Jar.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: A Prelude to Beowulf

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Before reading the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, "Beowulf," learners should explore the Dark Ages through researching the fundamental characteristics of the art and literature produced during this period. This website provides links for doing...
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Activity
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Activity: Awesome Alliteration | Word Girl

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
This WordGirl lesson focuses on alliteration. Students will generate a list of alliterative words, then write an original poem using those words.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Poetry Games

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Students will use this interactive exercise to play with words to strengthen their imaginations and their enjoyment of poetry in this SMART whiteboard activity.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: "Truth" by Nikki Grimes

For Students 6th - 8th
This poem appeared in Grimes' book "One Last Word", a collection inspired by poems from The Harlem Renaissance that follow the "Golden Shovel" form. In this poetic form, the poet takes a "striking line" from an inspirational poem and...
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Website
Other

Centre for Literacy in Primary Education: Poetryline: Poetic Forms and Devices

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Brit Lit: 20th Century Postmodernism: Dylan Thomas

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from a 20th Century Postmodernism unit focuses on Dylan Thomas and his poetry. It provides links to his biography, two of his poems, and a literary analysis assignment pertaining the literary devices and voice in Thomas's...
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

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

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students 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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