Mrs. Stauffer

Genre: Poetry

  • has words with the same sound at the end of some lines

  • has regular, repeating rhythm

  • tells a poet's thoughts or feelings

Essential question: Where can your imagination take you?

Comprehension skill: Point of view

  • The way the speaker in a poem feels about something is his or her point of view

  • To understand the speaker's point of view, think about what the speaker is describing and how he or she describes it.

Vocabulary strategy: Metaphors

  • A metaphor compares two different things.

  • It does not use the words like or as.

  • Example: "A box of crayons is the sun on a dreary rainy day."

Important

Spelling

  1. jumper

  1. market

  1. higher

  1. hairy

  1. star

  1. starry

  1. garden

  1. better

  1. dinner

  1. doctor

Vocabulary

create-something that is made or invented

dazzling-something that is very bright

imagination-visualizing ideas in the mind

seconds-units for measuring time, 1/60th of a minute

beats-the syllables that make rhythm in a line or poetry

message-an idea that a poet wants to share with the reader

metaphor-compares two unlike things but does not use the words "like" or "as"

repeated lines-including the same line at least twice in a poem