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Dancing Minds and Shouting Smiles: Teaching Personification Through Poetry Lesson PlanDancing Minds and Shouting Smiles: Teaching Personification Through Poetry Lesson Plan
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Dancing Minds and Shouting Smiles: Teaching Personification Through Poetry

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Learners explore personification through reading and discussing poems by Emily Dickinson, William Blake, and Langston Hughes. Then they use the poems as a guide to brainstorm lists of nouns and verbs that they randomly arrange to create personification.

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personification, literary devices, figurative language

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personification, english language arts
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Resource Details

Grade
3rd - 5th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
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For Teacher Use
Duration
4 days
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Year
2026
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