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Poetic Devices PowerPoint
PDF, PowerPoint | 23 pages|Grades: 4 - 5A 23-slide editable PowerPoint template to use when introducing students to poetic devices.
Poetry is an extremely broad genre of imaginative writing. As teachers, it is sometimes difficult to know where to begin!
This PowerPoint presentation has been designed to introduce your students to five commonly used poetic devices. It provides an overview and example of the following:
- rhythm
- rhyme
- sound devices
- word play
- imagery.
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Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.5
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.5.A
Explain the meaning of simple similes and metaphors (e.g., as pretty as a picture) in context.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.5
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.5.A
Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors, in context.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.4.B
Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4.B
Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4-5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
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The grade levels and curriculum codes have been updated for this PowerPoint, and we have added some new illustrations.
Change by Garrett Oct 2nd, 2020Spelling of 'coarse' corrected on slide 22.
Fix by Stephanie (Teach Starter) Jul 1st, 2019
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