These posters were created to support student learning of poetic devices. They feature a description and a corresponding example in bright and lively colours to create a fantastic and functional classroom display.
The following poetic devices are featured:
Discuss the effects of some literary devices used to enhance meaning and shape the reader’s reaction, including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose
Examine the use of literary devices and deliberate word play in literary texts, including poetry, to shape meaning
Examine the effects of imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, and sound devices in narratives, poetry and songs
Create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced
Discuss the nature and effects of some language devices used to enhance meaning and shape the reader’s reaction, including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose
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
Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes
Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter
Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language
Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts
Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
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
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts
Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language
Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words
Sustains a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style
Selects digital technologies to suit audience and purpose to create texts
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts
Discuss the nature and effects of some language devices used to enhance meaning and shape the reader’s reaction, including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose
Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts
Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes
Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced
Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors
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