Lesson Title - Personification Poem

Contributor - Cheryl Frazier

Grade Level - 1-2

Essential Reading Element - Comprehension

Objective(s) - Students will demonstrate understanding of personification through by writing their own poem

Procedure -  Explain and give examples of personification. (A personification poem means that the poem is about an object that is being discribed as a person! For example, 'The flowers were dancing in the light wind,' clearly everyone knows flowers cant dance, however people or a person can, so it have been described as a person.)  Read the poem "Thoughts of a Backpack" from our Literacy Hooks Poetry Handouts. 

Ask: "Who's talking?  Does this object usually talk? Why not?"

Ask: "If you were a backpack, might you feel the same way? Why? What are some things you might say to your owner?"

Implementation -  This activity will be demonstrated in whole group and utilized during Literacy Centers.

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