Description: This lively, engaging lesson incorporates images from the conversation cards to allow students to “play” with sound devices such as alliteration and onomatopoeia, first in an oral capacity and then in writing. There is a combination of group and individual work.

Additional Information:

• recommendations for student background  and teacher preparation for lesson

• series of teaching examples and activities giving students opportunity to create sound devices prompted by conversation cards

• creative application activities that lead students to create sound devices to suit a particular purpose 

• poetry writing activity, including a teaching example and alternate teaching options for differentiation