Grade Four Poetry Fun

Quatrains

Metaphors & Similes

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia


Grade Four Poetry Fun


Learn about the possibilities
Great Four Poetry Fun Overview

Explore rhyming schemes
Learn About Quatrains

"Juliet is the sun"
a metaphor written by Shakespeare
Discover Metaphors & Similes

She sells seashells by the seashore
Alliteration ABC's

Crash, beep, bang!
Onomatopoeia Sounds Like



Poetry Fun Overview

This term, we will learning about poetry. Writing poems and learning literary devices will help to improve your writing skills. You will be expected to complete these assignments as well as others introduced in class. Also, you will present a poem by an author to the class and one person will present his or hers in front of the student body during Arts Week. At the end of this unit of study, you will write a test on literary devices.

Explore these activities and others to develop the poet in you...

Create a four line poem with a rhyming scheme


Use poetic devices to write vivid descriptions


Write tongue twisters to share with your friends


Develop stories with words that imitate sounds


Learn all this and more...