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Grade 3, Language Arts Language Expression: Identify figurative language - onomatopoeia, similes, and personification (COS 32/ SAT10)

Lesson Plans: Oh, Let the Rain Fall Down Using the three phases of the water cycle and five science vocabulary words, students write a narrative paragraph(s) describing the journey of a raindrop during one day. This introduces personification. Similar Similes The students learn that similes are figures of speech that use the words -as- and -like- as visual terms. They use this knowledge to complete a worksheet where they write some similes. Onomatopoeia In this lesson students explore onomatopoeia and create poems using this device. Buzz! Whiz! Bang! Using Comic Books to Teach Onomatopoeia In this lesson students use onomatopoeic words, develop a vocabulary list from the words, and discuss why writers use onomatopoeia.

Resources: Discovering Language Arts: Style, Structure, and Tone: From descriptive language to the variety of sentence structures to the elements within a paragraph, introduce elementary students to the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing. You can watch all of the video or just the segment on figurative language. This is hosted on Discovery Education unitedstreaming, and to access it you must have your user name and password. All teachers in Alabama can get this information from their school's media specialist or technology support teacher. A Poem About Feelings: This poem format has students use similes.
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