Sound Devices in a Poem

Read the poem aloud together before your child answers. For each saying, ask when someone might say it in real life. Check with the answer key and compare your child's explanations with the samples.

Read an original poem about wind chimes, then find its alliteration, sound words and rhymes. Sound devices such as alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhyme help a poem sound like music. The directions on the page read: Read the poem two times, once out loud. Then, turn the page and answer the questions. On page 2: Look back at the poem on page 1. Then, circle or write each answer. The answer key covers the questions on page 2.

Yes, both. We made it for 5th Grade figurative language, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

CCSS L.5.5.A asks 5th graders to interpret similes and metaphors in context, and L.5.5.B covers idioms, adages and proverbs. Sound devices like alliteration and onomatopoeia often come up in the poetry unit, and puns and oxymorons show how writers play with meaning.

An idiom is a phrase whose meaning differs from its words, like on thin ice. An adage or proverb is a well-known saying that gives advice, like don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Ask two questions: what two things are compared, and what do they have in common? In the river is a silver thread, both are long, thin and shiny. That answer is the meaning.

Sixteen of the twenty sheets have an answer key, with sample answers for the written explanations. Revise With Alliteration, Write Your Own Puns, Write Sentences With Oxymorons and Figurative Language Revision have no key, since every child's writing is different.