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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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Curated OER

Come Fly With Me...Aviation

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students conduct internet research on aviation and pioneer aviators. They create an alphabet book r with flight related terms, write a short biography of a pioneer aviator and take part in a paper plane flying contest.
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Curated OER

How To Identify Figurative Language

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

Read Write Think: Alliteration All Around

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson introduces young scholars 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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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Alliteration in Headline Poems

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
For 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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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: All About Alliteration: Responding to Literature Through Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, young scholars 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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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts: Approaching Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson 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 followed by a...
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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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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 students with various aspects of poetry. This site discusses strategies which enable students to effectively, memorize, recite, and correctly pronounce...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

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

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this culminating lesson plan 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...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: A Prelude to Beowulf

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Before reading the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, "Beowulf," students 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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National Endowment for the Humanities

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

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars 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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British Library

British Library: Robert Browning: Creative Writing

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

Read Write Think: Strategy to Define: Identify Poetic Terms

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Online lesson plan offers teachers the ability to teach a "Four-square," strategy technique for poetic terms. Young scholars explore websites and define terms such as alliteration, assonance, simile, and rhyme.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: There Once Was...

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.
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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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Scholastic

Scholastic: Chants and Street Rhymes [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Four pages of with chants and street rhymes. Three of the pages are reproducible examples and information useful to students, and one page gives lesson ideas for teachers.

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