Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Special Place Poems
In this lesson students will develop a poem while thinking about a special place. They will develop their ideas using strong word choice and figurative language. After the students have completed their ideas, they will be linked together...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Start and Stop Poetry
In this instructional activity students will analyze the cyclical patterns within poetry.
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.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Colorful Sensory Poems
This lesson plan 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...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Discovering Ourselves in Literature and Life
This lesson plan, provided by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), encourages students to evaluate literature in a variety of multimedia formats and answer the question, "Who Am I?," Students are then asked to...
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ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Moon Phaser [Pdf]
In 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.
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Your Dictionary: Poetry Lesson Plans Onomatopoeia
This site offers a definition of onomatopoeia and two lesson plans with two activities each for teaching onomatopoeia to 9th graders.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Backwards Writing Assignment
In this lesson students will create a backwards poem based on descriptive settings and characters.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Between Repeated Lines
In this lesson plan young scholars will write a poem about someone they love after they have brainstormed an original idea.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Death Personified
In this lesson, students will personify an object within a poem. They will focus on voice and word choice in order to fully convey their message.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Unique Metaphor Collections
In this instructional activity, the first chapter of the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring is used as a mentor text. Students will identify metaphors and then create their own unique metaphorical descriptions that they will begin to...