A fun writing lesson for grade K-6 to develop students’ ability to use word play to understand how poetry can be created. Students write a descriptive sentence and cut up the words to create a poem.

7 Lessons

Grade: 3-6

Poetic Devices

This unit will explicitly teach students to use the following poetic devices independently, in their writing: wordplay, personification, repetition, similes, metaphors, and alliteration. To demonstrate their learning throughout the unit, students will use the skills they have developed to write their own poem, using Kit Wright’s ‘The Magic Box’ as inspiration. Each lesson includes suggested texts and ideas to help students engage with each of the devices, and while they can be taught as stand alone lessons, they have been designed to be taught sequentially.

A fun writing lesson for grade K-6 to develop students’ ability to use word play to understand how poetry can be created. Students write a descriptive sentence and cut up the words to create a poem.

7 Lessons

Grade: 3-6

Poetic Devices

This unit will explicitly teach students to use the following poetic devices independently, in their writing: wordplay, personification, repetition, similes, metaphors, and alliteration. To demonstrate their learning throughout the unit, students will use the skills they have developed to write their own poem, using Kit Wright’s ‘The Magic Box’ as inspiration. Each lesson includes suggested texts and ideas to help students engage with each of the devices, and while they can be taught as stand alone lessons, they have been designed to be taught sequentially.

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Essential Question/s

How can I use poetic devices to enhance my writing?

Cross Curriculum Priorities

Sustainability
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia

General Capabilities

Literacy
Critical and Creative thinking
Personal and Social Capability
Ethical Understanding

Lessons

7 Lessons

Lesson 1

A fun writing lesson for grade K-6 to develop students’ ability to use word play to understand how poetry can be created. Students write a descriptive sentence and cut up the words to create a poem.

Lesson
Writing

Poetry - Introduction to Poetry and Word Play

Grades: 4-3

Using word play in our poetry writing.

Lesson 2

A fun writing lesson for grade 3-6 to develop students’ ability to use personification to describe an object and bring it to life. Here we have an example of personification being used to bring a guitar to life, making use of a range sentence stems.

Lesson
Writing

Poetic Devices - Personification

Grades: 3-2

Using personification in our poetry writing.

Lesson 3

A fun writing lesson for grade 2-6 to develop students’ ability to use repetition to describe a natural environment of their choice. Isabella’s Garden by Glenda Millard is used as a mentor text. Here we have an example using the desert as inspiration.

Lesson
Reading | Writing

Poetry - Repetition Using Isabella's Garden

Grades: 3-6

Using repetition in our poetry writing.

Lesson 4

A fun writing lesson for grade 3-6 to develop students’ ability to use similes to create vivid descriptions. Students use paint chips as inspiration to create their similes.

Lesson
Reading | Writing

Poetic Devices - Creating Similes with Paint Chips

Grades: 3-2

Using similes to create vivid descriptions.

Lesson 5

A fun writing lesson for grade 3-6 to develop students’ ability to use metaphors to describe. Students are exposed to the amazing metaphors in “The Black Book of Colours” and use this as inspiration to create their own colour dictionaries. Here we have a few examples using yellow, red, orange, pink and green!

Lesson
Writing

Poetic Devices - Metaphors Colour Dictionaries

Grades: 3-6

Using metaphors to write a description.

Lesson 6

A fun writing lesson for grade 3-6 to develop students’ ability to use alliteration in their poetry writing. Here we have an example of a brainstorm using the consonant D, and the start of an alliteration poem.

Lesson
Writing

Poetic Devices - Using Alliteration in Poetry

Grades: 3-2

Using alliteration in poetry writing.

Lesson 7

A fun writing lesson for grade 3-6 to develop students’ ability to use poetic devices together to write a poem. Kit Wright’s beautiful poem, The Magic Box, is used to inspire student writing.

Lesson
Reading | Writing

Poetic Devices - Bringing Everything Together With The Magic Box

Grades: 3-6

Using our understanding of language devices to write an engaging poem.

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