Beginner Poetry: Figurative Language and Creative Writing

Beginner Poetry: Figurative Language and Creative Writing

Beginner Poetry: Figurative Language and Creative Writing

This class introduces common figurative language through group reading, analysis, and writing. Each session studies poems in a specific style, practices identifying literary devices, and gives students time to compose and share original poems with peer feedback and review games.

Beginner Poetry: Figurative Language and Creative Writing

Paid once.

Level
Beginner
Ages
7–12
Duration
45 min
Classes
1 / Week
Weeks
4

Class Experience

This class introduces common figurative language through group reading, analysis, and writing. Each session studies poems in a specific style, practices identifying literary devices, and gives students time to compose and share original poems with peer feedback and review games.

Learning Outcomes

  • Identify common literary devices such as simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and hyperbole

  • Give examples of those literary devices in poems

  • Write original poems that use studied figurative language and styles

Learning Needs Support

ADHD_FRIENDLY

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A former public school English teacher with classroom experience at the middle school level, a background in ESL instruction, and hands-on experience supporting students with diverse learning needs. Also experienced as a preschool teacher and support staff for students with autis…

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