Poetry Writing

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Poetry Writing
You are an author!
Clip Art taken from Microsoft Office 97
PowerPoint Created by Denise M. Sales
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Goals and Objectives

• Students will be able to write a poem using at
  least three literary devices such as form1,
  onomatopoeia2, and sensory details3. LA 3.5-6

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Poetry Writing is Fun!

• Writing poetry is so much fun!
• Write about anything you want!
• You cant go wrong!
• You are FREE to express yourself!
• No limits!
• No hard and fast rules!

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Poets We Know and Love!

• Shel Silverstein
• Jack Prelutsky
• Mother Goose
• Dr. Seuss
• http\\www.gigglepotz.com/kidspoetry.htm

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Literary Devices

• Language Art
• With Language Art you get to paint with words!

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Form

• Poetry writing uses many forms!
• Organization helps the reader!
• Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
• Baa, baa, black sheep,
• have you any wool?
• Yes sir, yes sir
• three bags full.
• One for the master,
• one for the dame,
• and one for the little boy
• who lives down the lane.

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Free Form
Do not disturb the dinosaur
Find him and you'll
who's fast asleep upon the floor
and another.
between one country
.earthquake great a cause and scratch and
soon discover that tickling makes him
wake and twitch
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Sensory Detail

• Creating a picture in your readers mind using
  things you see, hear, taste, smell, and feel.
• Shimmering heat waves,
• A hot pebble in the hand,
• Light-dance on the sea.
• By Wendy Cope

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Sensory Details - Sound

• Hear the rumble,
• Oh hear the crash.
• The great trees tumble,
• the strong trees smash.
• By Margaret Mahy

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Onomatopoeia

• Onomatopoeia are sound words like boom, crash,
  bang, and pow!
• Wind Song
• When the wind blows the quiet things speak.
• Some whisper, some clang, some creak.
• Grasses swish. Treetops sigh.
• Flags slap and snap at the sky.
• By Lilian Moore

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Poetry Challenge

• With a partner, write a poem using the three
  literary devices we learned about today.
• Form
• Sensory Details
• Onomatopoeia