ELA EQ Express Yourself

Organizing Idea / Activity: Balance and Stability

Learning Target: I can identify and then create with onomatopoeia.

Materials / Resources

Whiteboard with or without an Elmo OR poster paper, markers, books with onomatopoeias, video or recording with onomatopoeia, graphic novel (or comic book)

Procedure
Modeling and/or Skills Development

Ask students to listen to onomatopoeiafrom video, YouTube, or premade recording.

Safari Videos for onomatopoeia:

Writing Resources Video

Ty’s One Man Band – Reading Rainbow

YouTube Videos:

Onomatopoeia -

Onomatopoeia -

Batman Onomatopoeia -

Guided Practice

  1. Using a whiteboard (with or without an Elmo or poster paper), have students write “noise words”.
  2. Ask students to describe noise words/give examples. Then define onomatopoeia and have students decide if their example fits the definition: the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss) or the use of words whose sound suggests the sense
  1. Read and discuss books with examples of onomatopoeia:

If You were Onomatopoeia by Trisha Speed Shaskan
Woof Meow Tweet-Tweet by Cecile Boyer

Achoo! Bang! Crash! : The Noisy Alphabet by Ross MacDonald

The Baby Beebee Bird by Diane Redfield Massie

Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper

The Great Fuzz Frenzy by Susan Stevens Crummel

The Mixed Up Rooster by Pamela Edwards

Crocodile Beat by Gail Jorgensen

Animal Lingo by Pam Conrad

Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson

Old Cricket by Lisa Wheeler

The Fantastic Mr. Wani by Kanako Usui

Rattletrap Car by Phyllis Root

Thump, Quack, Moo by Doreen Cronin

How the Ostrich Got its Long Neck retold by Verna Aardema

The Water Hole by Graeme Base

Welcome to the Green Houseby Jane Yolen

Night Noises byMem Fox

Bark George by Jules Feiffer

Book, Book, Bookby Deborah Bruss

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anythingby Linda Williams

Sky Dogs by Jane Yolen

Umbrella by Taro Yashima

Animalia by Graeme Base

Angus and the Catby Marjorie Flack

Ask: How is onomatopoeia important in this book? How would the story be different without it? Should all stories use onomatopoeia? How much is too much? Can you think of onomatopoeia that representthe same sound? (arf /woof, etc.)

Extension

Choose a comic book or graphic novel and ask two students to read a page of text. (relate this to the Batman YouTube video) What does onomatopoeia add to the action pages? Talk about text features—How can you tell if dialogue is thought, spoken, yelled loudly, etc? OR
Go to the Create Your Own Comic (Marvel Comics ) site and create a 2 or 3-cel cartoon with your class. Start with a simple character and ask students to write sentences or fill in onomatopoeia.

Evaluation

Evaluate for understanding by having each student give an example of onomatopoeia as he/she checks out or leaves the library.