Dancing Minds and Shouting Smiles: Teaching Personification Through Poetry

Experiencing the language of great poets provides a rich learning context for students, giving them access to the best examples of how words can be arranged in unique ways. By studying the works of renowned poets across cultures and histories, students extract knowledge about figurative language and poetic devices from masters of the craft. In this lesson, students learn about personification by reading and discussing poems by Emily Dickinson, William Blake, and Langston Hughes. Then they use the poems as a guide to brainstorm lists of nouns and verbs that they randomly arrange to create personification in their own poems.
Resource ID#: 23166 Type: Lesson Plan
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Subject(s): English Language Arts
Grade Level(s): 5
Intended Audience: Educators educators
Suggested Technology: Computer for Presenter
Resource supports reading in content area:Yes
Freely Available: Yes
Keywords: figurative language, poetry, personification
Instructional Component Type(s): Lesson Plan,  Unit/Lesson Sequence
Instructional Design Framework(s): Direct Instruction, Confirmation Inquiry (Level 1), Learning Cycle (e.g., 5E), Writing to Learn, Cooperative Learning
Resource Collection: iCPALMS

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