Young poets use word cards to prompt a metaphor poem comparing to very dissimilar items.

Concepts

poetry writing, descriptive writing, metaphors, similes

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Ask writers to illustrate their poems and then post their work about the classroom
• Collect all the poems into a book for the classroom library

Classroom Considerations

• The activity does not include any discussion of the difference between similes and metaphors

Pros

• The things listed on the five cards give writers a starting place
• Engaging the whole class in the opening activity models how to use the cards to generate similes and metaphors for their poems
• Complete directions, templates for the subject cards, and a worksheet are included in the resource

Cons

• None