Grade Level: Mr. Young- 5th grade
Title of Lesson: Introduction to Personification/ Personification Poems
Big Ideas/ Objectives: (1) Students will be able to identify personification in a piece of writing
or from their own personal experiences (i.e. movies or commercials they may have seen). (2)
Students will be able to display personification in their own piece of work.
Activities: I will start the lesson off by showing and reading a poster of the poem “Hey Diddle
Diddle”, the students will come up and underline the “unusual actions performed by the animals
or objects in the story.” I will then explain to the students that this type of writing is labeled
personification. I will then present a poster with the definition of personification as well as
pictures of personified characters that children will be familiar with (i.e. Geico gecko, characters
from different children’s movies). As a class, we will do a work sheet in which students will
have to decide whether or not a sentence shows personification. Students put their thumbs up for
yes and thumbs down for no. I will give them the right answer and they will have to record it
onto their worksheets. I then reminded students of the “Hey, Diddle Diddle” poem and told
students they will make their own poems or stories that show personification. I showed the
students the one I made as an example, as well as wrote some example of things to personify on
the board.
Materials:
Poster board (2) (Hey, Diddle Diddle poem, Personification definition)
Markers/ Crayons
Personification Worksheet
Personification Poem template
Personification Poem bulletin board banner