Language Arts in the Elementary classroom
Teach students how to use figurative language to enhance their writing. Click on the Flocabulary icon to listen to the rap on figurative language.
Students must also know how to use appropriate grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Sentence variety is also a "must" for students. Students must know how to use conjunctions.
In my classroom, I gave students a writing folder with a copy of transition words, action verbs, and commonly misspelled words.
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Poetry Writing
Poets manipulate language to create an impact more powerful than any found in prose. Poets use words as sound; words as patterns; and words as pictures.
There are two basic types of poetry: narrative and lyric. Narrative poems tell a story and can take many forms including free verse to ballads.
TEACHING TRANSITIONS
Click on the "Teaching Transitions" to access a rap about transition words. Click on the puppet to view a Youtube video that uses transitions within the story. Great story for middle school students.
Poets use many different devices including: comparison, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and repetition.
Teach students how to read poetry using tempo, rhythm, pitch, and juncture.
There are many ways that you can perform poems which include: echo reading, leader & chorus reading, small-group reading, and cumulative reading.
Mrs. Maples' Alliteration Song- Click on both pictures.
Video: How to write a Limerick. Click the picture below.
Youtube: Common Core
Writing -Kindergarten
