Week 6
Reading Handouts/Anchor Charts
Topic: State Fair
Read the State Fair poem. Use this graphic organizer to collect sensory language that helps the reader create imagery.
See
Hear
Smell
Taste
Feel
Feelings
State Fair
The energy—
thousands of people swarming about
Moms pushing strollers
couples holding hands
teenagers bored with excitement
kids running
back and forth, around in circles
laughing
screaming,
hot and sweaty.
Everything at once—
auto show
carmel apples, nachos
farm animals
extreme rides
squeal in delight
“Announcing! The beginning of a
show!” ice cream cone, funnel cake
BMX bike show
pig races
spin the wheel
toss the rings
shoot the ball
“I won! I won!”
stuff the Snoopy under my arm
chili and cheese fries
Texas Skyway
thirsty,
dusty and dirty.
Eyes wide open—
Big Tex smiles and waves
“Howdy Folks!”
cotton candy, corn dogs
each ride sings its own
music Ferris Wheel
stops at the top
“Hurry! Hurry! Step right up!”
sticky and sunburned.
Long day ending—
one more ride
on the carousel,
enough of
the fried food
the sweet cakes,
the voices and laughter
of a thousand people
fading
away, slowing
down, dragging
feet, dragging
Snoopy, hot and
sweaty, sticky,
sunburne
d, dusty,
dirty,
“Where’s the car?”
Poetry – is a piece of writing in which words and their sounds are used to show images and
express feelings and ideas.
Noticings
Rhythm: the beat of how the words are read;
Add these to anchor chart on Friday
may be fast or slow
Sound Effects:
 Repetition: occurs when poets repeat
words, phrases, or lines in a poem
 Internal Rhyme: occurs when poets use
rhyming words within the same line
 Rhyme Scheme the pattern of rhyme
that the poet uses
 Alliteration the repetition of the first
consonant sound in words, as in the nursery
rhyme “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers.”
 Onomatopoeia words that represent the
Book Examples
Rhythm:
The pickety fence
The pickety fence
Give it a lick it's
The pickety fence
Give it a lick it's
A clickety fence
When the night begins to fall
And the sky begins to glow
You look up and see the tall
City of lights begin to grow –
 Repetition
Someone tossed a pancake,
A buttery, buttery, pancake.
Someone tossed a pancake
And flipped it up so high,
That now I see the pancake,
The buttery, buttery pancake,
Now I see that pancake
Stuck against the sky.
 Imagery & Sensory Detail the use of
Add on
Monday
Figurative Language tools that writers use
to create images, or “paint pictures,” in your mind.
 Simile compares two things using the
words “like” or “as.”

Metaphors compare two things without
using the words “like” or “as.”

Personification gives human traits and
feelings to things that are not human – like
animals or objects.
The rhythm in this poem is
slow – to match the night
gently falling and the lights
slowly coming on.
Sound Effects:
actual sound of something are words of
onomatopoeia. Thunder “booms,” rain
“drips,” and the clock “ticks.”Appeals to the
sense of sound.
words to create pictures, or images, in your
mind. Appeals to the five senses: smell,
sight, hearing, taste and touch.
The rhythm in this poem is
fast – to match the speed of
the stick striking the fence.

Internal Rhyme
 Rhyme Scheme
 Alliteration
 Onomatopoeia
Imagery & Sensory Detail:
Figurative Language:
 Simile
 Metaphors
 Personification
see
specific
anchor
charts for
examples
Topic: State Fair
***The highlighted Sensory Details are the examples you can use for modeling during your Minilesson.
See
Hear
Smell
Big Tex
Ferris Wheel
Thousands of people
Auto Show
Bike Show
Farm Animals
Crafts
Rides – Texas Skyway, Extreme
Rides, Carousel
Games
“Hurry, hurry! Step right up!”
People laughing
People screaming (on rides)
Music playing
An announcer shouting the beginning
of a performance
Everything is loud
Fried food
Sweet cakes
Beer
Animal smells in the barns
Straw in the barns
Taste
Feel
Feelings
Cotton Candy
Corn Dogs
Ice Cream Cones
Funnel Cakes
Soda
Carmel Apples
Nachos
Chili & Cheese Fries
Hot
Sweaty
Sticky
Sun burned
Dusty
Dirty
Excited
Lots of energy
Want to do everything at once
Eyes are wide
Figurative Language
Type of
Figurative
Language
Simile
Definition
Example
Comparison of 2 The emerald
things using like or is as green as
as
grass.
Comparison of 2
things but does
not use like or as
The night is a
big, black
cat.
The moon
Personification Giving human
traits & feelings to smiled down
things that are not
at me.
Metaphor
Idiom
human
(animals/objects)
Phrase that has a
figurative
meaning
She’s pulling
my leg.
He laughed
his head off.
What it Looks Like on a Test…
The author’s use of figurative language in paragraph 12
emphasizes that –
Read these lines from the poem. “____”
The poet uses the figurative expression “___” to
emphasize that the speaker –
The poet uses figurative language in line __ to highlight
the speaker’s –
5.8A
The poet uses line 11 to signal that the speaker changes
from –
In line 3, why does the poet repeat and italicize the
words from line 2?
5.4/Fig.19D
This poem is mostly about a speaker who –
5.4/Fig.19E