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Sound Devices and Figurative Language - Onomatapoeia - Print - Fiction Resources



 * K-2**

    
 * //Achoo! Bang! Crash! The Noisy Alphabet, // by Ross MacDonald 0-7613-1796-1 Sound words illustrate the alphabet, for example - "C for Crackle, Clank, and Crunch?"
 * //Barnyard Banter,// by Denise Fleming. 9780805065947. Loaded with animal onomatapoeia, including rooster cock-a-doodle-dooing and cows mooing as this rhyming book takes on a search for the missing goose.
 *  //Night// //in the C ountry //, by Cynthia Rylant 0-02-777210-1 Sounds of a night in the country provide examples of onomatopoeia.
 * //That's Good! That's Bad!,// by Margery Cuyler. 9780805029543 A boy's adventures in the zoo lead to plenty of onomatopoeia words, including ``WHEEEE!; ``WHOOPS!; ``GLUG! GLUG!'.'
 * //Thump//, //Quack, Moo: A Wacky Adventure,// by Doreen Cronin. 9781416916307. As the farm animals get ready for the annual corn maize festival, onomatopoeia is rampant: "Cluck Whack! The chickens buld a fence around the cornfield. Moo, Thwack! The cows give the barn a fresh coat of paint. Thump, Quack! Duck builds the ticket booth for the hot-air balloon ride.


 * 3-5**

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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Big Chickens, // by Leslie Helakoski. 9780525475750 This is a great book for laughs and onomatopoeia, such as the chickens "tutted, putted, and flutted."
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//I Saw an Ant on the Railroad Track,// by Joshua Prince. 978-1-40272183-0. As an ant faces certain danger on a railroad track, the switchman does his best to save him, while plenty of onomatopoeia is infused in the story - "when an ant walking east, "tickety-tack," meets a train heading west, clickety-clack."
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything// //,// by Linda Williams. 9780064431835. A fearless old lady encounters plenty of noise in the woods: "CLOMP CLOMPs, WIGGLE WIGGLEs, SWISHES and KNOCK KNOCK."
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//The L oudest, Fastest, Best Drummer in Kansas,// by Marguerite W. Davol. 0-531-30191-5 Sounds, described by noise words made by musical instruments, in almost every sentence on almost every page, in a fun read aloud picture book.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//The Paper Bag Princess,// by Robert N. Munsch.<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 0-920236-82-0. Princess Elizabeth must save her Prince Ronald, and in usual Munsch style, onomatopoeia is used in the story - examples include flying noises and dragon breathing.


 * 6-8:**
 * //Maniac Magee// by Jerry Spinelli, copyright 1990, Publisher: Little, Brown, ISBN: 978-0-316-80722-7. This book is a wonderful source of examples of onomatapoeia, as well as other examples of figurative language. Teacher's guides are available from the following sources: [|Teacher Created Materials], [|Novel Units], [|Learning Links], and [|Teacher's Pet Publications].


 * //[|"The Highwayman"]// by Alfred Noyes This narrative poem is filled with great examples of onomatapoeia.