This lesson is sure to sizzle, not fizzle, as students use comic strips to find onomatopoetic words, develop a vocabulary list from the words, and discuss why writers use onomatopoeia.
Objectives: Students will be able to recognize and generate onomatopoeia.Play the Onomatopoeia video.While the video is playing, write the word "onomatopoeia" on the board to make a word web.Write a couple of examples to show the students, e.g. bam, boom, oink.Ask the students if they know of any other onomatopoeia, and then write them down on the word web.Show the students examples of onomatopoeia designsOnce they have observed some of the designs, handle them the both worsheets.At the end of the class review what they have learned and a game can be played where per groups every group has to share an onomatopoeia until just one stands because the other groups don't have more ideas.
This is a 5th grade lesson plan meant to teach students about onomatopoeias. The lesson should take a total of 55-60 minutes.
This free video series provides definitions of literary terms in English literature to students and teachers. It also offers examples of how these literary devices can be applied to poems, plays, novels, and short stories. We are in the process of translating the videos into Spanish and many of them now contain these subtitles.