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Lesson Objective. Students will learn to write descriptive poems focusing on each of the five senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. Materials Needed. Paper and pencils; Optional: objects related to different senses (e.g., textured items, scented items, pictures, audio clips, taste-safe food items) Lesson Plan. Introduction (5 minutes):
To create a playful poem, you can: • use a repeated opening line, e.g. In the cave of curiosity, I created… • use a place + abstract or magical noun • tell the reader what you created, saw, found, noticed, watched, discovered, uncovered, etc • list three or four ideas for each verse • play with alliteration, e.g. an angry ant
An ‘abstract noun’ is what we call a word that names emotions, feelings, ideas or concepts. In simple terms, nouns that cannot be physically experienced by our five senses are abstract. They are the direct opposite of concrete nouns.
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5 lut 2017 · The activity asks pupils to create a poem about kindness using their senses. It asks them to think about how they can describe kindness (an abstract noun) using adjectives, adverbs and nouns (extending to using similes, metaphors and personification).
Here are a couple of examples of abstract nouns that you and your kids might know already: Freedom; Danger; Charity; Justice; Generosity; Hope; Love. We have an idea of what these words mean, but cannot physically experience them with the five senses. Identifying abstract nouns:
This resource focuses on acrostic poems, using abstract nouns which show feelings and emotions to create the themes for writing. There are opportunities to teach or revisit abstract nouns before pupils write their own poems.
