English Unit: Literary Devices
This unit plan has been created to support your students when exploring the use of literary devices and deliberate word play in literary texts, including poetry, to shape meaning. The unit comes with class displays, student reference cards, worksheets, a presentation and two assessment sheets.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to understand, discuss and use poetic devices and how they create interest in text, such as nonsense words, spoonerisms, neologisms and puns.
- We are learning to understand, discuss and use poetic devices and how they create interest in text, such as nonsense words, spoonerisms, neologisms and puns.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E4LE04
9
Examine the use of literary devices and deliberate word play in literary texts, including poetry, to shape meaning
ACELT1606
8.4
Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts, for example nonsense words, spoonerisms, neologisms and puns
EN2-2A
old
Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language
EN2-OLC-01
new
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
EN2-VOCAB-01
new
Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words
EN2-RECOM-01
new
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
EN2-UARL-01
new
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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