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Synonym Poetry


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Subjects
  • Arts & Humanities
    Language Arts
  • Educational Technology

Grades

3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Brief Description

Students choose a word -- any word -- think about what it means to them, and build synonym poems around their words!

Objectives

Students
  • choose a word.
  • list synonyms for the word.
  • use their lists of words and library and/or online reference tools (a thesaurus and/or dictionary) to build poems around the words they chose.
  • share their synonym poems with classmates.

Keywords

adjective, describe, dictionary, poem, poetry, rhyme, synonym, thesaurus, vocabulary

Materials Needed

library or online dictionaries and/or thesauruses (optional)

Lesson Plan

Explain to students that they will choose a word, brainstorm adjectives and descriptive phrases related to the word, and use their brainstormed ideas to write synonym poems. For complete details, see the lesson, Synonym Poetry.

Assessment

Students accurately use synonyms in their poems.

Lesson Plan Source

30 Days of Poetry

Submitted By

Gary Hopkins

National Standards

LANGUAGE ARTS: English

TECHNOLOGY Return to this week's Lesson Planning article, Turn Students Into Well-Versed Poets. See the sidebar in that article for links to additional poetry lesson ideas.

Originally published 04/19/2002
Last updated 03/18/2010