Poetry Forms Lesson, Grades 3-5: Kennings

What do "window-painter" and "mitten-soaker" have in common? In about 40 minutes, students learn that a kenning is a two-word picture name for a thing, such as whale-road for the sea, and that a kenning poem is a list of kennings for one thing, with the answer held back to the title or the last line. They match kennings to what they name, explain the picture in two, and write a kenning poem.

What's inside

• 16 slides, with speaker notes on all 16
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Student Notes, 1 page
• Poem Page, 1 page
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Teacher answer key, 1 page
• Print-all PDF, 7 pages: lesson plan, Notes, Poem Page, worksheet and answer key together

Answer key included

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