Teaching Poetic Devices
Make a strong introduction for poetry by revealing the poetic devices embedded in music – the language of youth.
OBJECTIVE
Students will:
- Identify six poetic devices: alliteration, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, rhyme, and simile
- Determine the purpose of poetic devices as either emphasizing meaning or the sound of words
- Respond to a journal entry
- Transfer learning while becoming the “teacher” of an assigned poetic device
LESSONS FOR THIS UNIT
Lesson 1: Musical Poetry
REPRODUCIBLES
Poetic Devices (PDF)
CULMINATING ACTIVITY
Students will work in small groups and become “teachers” as they educate their classmates about poetic devices found in their favorite songs.
SUPPORTING BOOKS
Books for Teaching about Poetry
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Listening Center Collections: Favorites
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Listening Center Collections: Favorites
Includes the following:
- Caps for Sale (paperback)
- Caps for Sale (audio cassette)
- The Carrot Seed (paperback and audio cassette)
- Doctor De Soto (audio cassette)
- Growing Vegetable Soup (paperback)
- Growing Vegetable Soup (audio cassette)
- Listen to the Desert (paperback)
- Listen to the Desert (audio cassette)
- The Mitten (paperback)
- The Mitten (audio cassette)
- Ruby the Copycat (paperback)
- Ruby the Copycat (audio cassette)
- Strega Nona Meets Her Match (paperba
$77.85
Supplementary Collection | Grades Pre-K-1
Grades Pre-K-1 $77.85
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Listening Center Collections: Silly Sounds
The Teacher Store Listening Center Collections: Silly Sounds
Listening center collections
$76.52
Supplementary Collection | Grades Pre-K-1
Grades Pre-K-1 $76.52
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