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Curated OER

Mixing Metaphors with Politics

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Learners discuss different literary devices and use them to write summaries of New York Times articles dealing with international news. They reflect on the effectiveness and appropriateness of sports metaphors in the political arena.
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Curated OER

From Ordinary To Extraordinary Writing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the quality of writing while focusing on the use of sensory words to convey meaning and ideas. The power of similes and metaphors is emphasized while they create and edit works of writing. The skill of descriptive...
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Curated OER

Connecting Poetry with Philanthropy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the different types of poetic conventions. They write a poem about philanthropy using these conventions. They illustrate their poem with artwork of their choice.
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Curated OER

Bringing the Line to Life

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Students use different types and lengths of sentences. They write with an insight of the stylistic aspects of composition. Students use precise language including adjectives, adverbs, action verbs and specific details that convey the...
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Onomatopoeia Lesson Plans for 10th Graders

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site offers links to lesson plans and ideas for teaching Onomatopoeia to high school students.
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Read Works

Read Works: Lessons: Onomatopoeia

For Teachers K
[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.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Onomatopoeia

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Go Figure With Figurative Language It Helps With Predicting!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
In this lesson, students will use figurative language, digital tools, and illustrations to write a story. The teacher will model how to use an app that has onomatopoeia to create a story with a good beginning, middle, and end. A video...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Onomatopoeia: A Figurative Language Mini Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Comic Books to Teach Onomatopoeia

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.
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Other

Literary Lessons: Onomatopoeia

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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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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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Poetry Lesson Plans Onomatopoeia

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site offers a definition of onomatopoeia and two lesson plans with two activities each for teaching onomatopoeia to 9th graders.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Literary Devices: Onomatopoeia

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A seven-part learning module including links to images and videos on onomatopoeia.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Onomatopoeia

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to image and videos about onomatopoeia.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Onomatopoeia Adventures

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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 lesson. After the reading of the text,...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Onomatopoeia

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces onomatopoeia as a figure of speech.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Transcendentalism: Key Terms

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

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: Transcendentalism: Emily Dickinson

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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TES Global

Tes: Follower: Seamus Heaney

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint lesson guides students through the analysis of a poem. The poem featured is "Follower" by Seamus Heaney.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Rl 5.4 Figurative Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: One Minute in Time Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An Onomatopoetic Field Trip

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan, learners will develop a story incorporating onomatopoeia and strong word choice.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Deploying Style Effectively

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson 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.

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