Onomatopoeia occurs when a word imitates or sounds like the thing it names. For example when rain splashes or water drips. These can be found in songs, poems, stories, and everyday speech. Here are some examples found from the book 'Creating Readers' by Pam Schiller.
Song - Six White Ducks
Six white ducks that I once knew,
Fat ducks, skinny ducks, they were too.
But the one little duck with the feather on his back,
He ruled all the others with a quack, quack, quack!
Quack, quack, quack!
Quack, quack, quack!
He ruled all the others with a quack, quack, quack!
Down to the river they would go,
Wibblw-wobble, wibble-wobble all in a row.
But the one little duck with the feather on his back,
He ruled all the others with a quack, quack, quack!
Quack, quack, quack!
Quack, quack, quack!
He ruled all the others with a quack, quack, quack!
Song - Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Old MacDonald Had a Farm, E-I-E-I-O.
And on his farm he has a cow. E-I-E-I-O.
With a moo, moo here
And a moo, moo there.
Here moo, there moo,
Everywhere a moo, moo.
Old MacDonald Had a Farm, E-I-E-I-O.
Additional verses:
Pig - oink, oink
Cat - meow, meow
Dog - bow-wow
Horse - neigh, neigh
Duck - quack, quack
Sheep - baa, baa
Poem - The Rain
Splish, splash
Splish, splash
Drip, drop
Drip, drop
Will the rain ever stop?
Poem - The Wind
Swoosh, swirl, swoosh, swirl
Watch the leaves tumble and twirl.
Poem - A Thunderstorm
Boom, bang, boom, bang
Rumpety, lumpety, bumpl
Zoom, zam, zoom, zam
Clippity, clappity, clumpl
Rustles and bustles
And swishes and zings!
What wonderful sounds
A thunderstorm brings!
Stories
Barnyard Banter - by Denise Fleming
Bertie and the Bear - by Pamela Allen
Listen to the Rain - by Bill Martin, Jr.
One Duck Stuck - by Phyllis Root
Ordinary Albert - by Pamela Allen
The Snowy Day - by Ezra Jack Keats
Where the Wild Things Are - by Maurice Sendak
I made a list of Onomatopoeia words and the class added to them all year. I believe I titled it "words that Make Noise" It was a lot of fun...there were words like crash and smash on there as you would expect. There were also some unusual ones: fizz, ding, swoosh, snort, zoom and the one that caused the most controversy: whisper...
ReplyDeleteThat's such a good idea! It amazing to see all the words kids can come up with. My sister learned the word onomatopoeia and its spelling in grade 3. She has never forgotten it since then. Her teacher was amazing and had been very creative with all the words; she says she remembers it as one of the most fun things they ever did in school.
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