Overview: This lesson is sure to sizzle, not fizzle, as students use comic strips to find onomatopoetic words, develop a vocabulary list from the words, and discuss why writers use onomatopoeia.
Subject: Arts and Humanities, Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Level: Upper Primary
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Provider:
Provider Set: ReadWriteThink Date Added: 09/28/2013
License: http://www.readwritethink.org/util/legal.html
Language: English
Media Format: Downloadable docs, Text/HTML

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