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Brief Description
Students choose a word -- any word -- think about what it means to them, and build synonym poems around their words!
Objectives
Students
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
Return to the Lesson Planning article, Turn Students Into Well-Versed Poets.
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