Tell me Why?
This helpful resource is a great way for you and your students to identify and solidify important terminology related to poetry. Together with students define, provide an example and explain the author’s purpose for including the device or feature in their writing.
These can be used as student reference cards, turned into a glossary, or poetry dictionary.
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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 the structures and language features of text types, such as simple narratives, procedures, persuasive texts and information reports.
- We are learning to understand the structures and language features of text types, such as simple narratives, procedures, persuasive texts and information reports.
- 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
AC9E4LA03
9
Identify how texts across the curriculum have different language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages depending on purposes
ACELA1490
8.4
Understand how texts vary in complexity and technicality depending on the approach to the topic, the purpose and the intended audience
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
EN2-8B
old
Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter
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
VCELA277
Identify features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text, and understand how texts vary in complexity and technicality depending on the approach to the topic, the purpose and the intended audience
VCELT285
Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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