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Can Teach

Can Teach: Writing a Bio Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This site describes how a Bio poem can be used to teach young scholars to focus on the characteristics of a person or an animal, anything or anyone really. It requires the student to put themselves in the subject's shoes. Lesson plan...
Lesson Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: How to Write a 5 W Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This site describes how a 5W poem is a good way to teach children to identify and focus on the five W's of a story or an event. Lesson plan indicated for 1st grade and above.
Interactive
Other

Rhyme Zone Rhyme Finder

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Enter a word and get a list of rhyming words, synonyms, antonyms, definitions, homophones and related words. Also available on this page, the texts of Shakespeare's plays, quotes by notable authors, games and quizzes, texts of famous...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Alliteration

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces alliteration.
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Chants and Street Rhymes [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Four pages of with chants and street rhymes. Three of the pages are reproducible examples and information useful to students, and one page gives lesson ideas for teachers.
Primary
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Teachers First: The Raven: An Interactive Study Resource

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource for teaching Poe's "The Raven" marks his use of literary devices and vocabulary. As students cursor over highlighted words, vocabulary is defined and the uses of assonance, alliteration, and internal rhyme are pointed out....
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Washington State University

Washington State University: Herrick Poetic Variations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Robert Herrick's "Delight in Disorder" is presented and the author asks the reader to identify the poetic variations in meter and rhyme in this poem. Good exercise.
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Other

Wise Geek: What Is the Difference Between Alliteration and Assonance?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Information and links to additional information about alliteration, assonance, prose, and consonance.
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Other

Erin Marie's Poetry Palace: How to Talk About a Poem

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation for how to discuss a poem by referring to the poem's meaning and how it is constructed. Includes definitions of terms used when discussing poetry.
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Other

Figurative Language: Alliteration

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation of alliteration, how it is formed, and what effect it has on the reader and the text.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Guide to Shakespeare:couplet

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a small section of a much larger article on Shakespeare and the Globe Theater that discusses the use of couplets in poetry. Some different types of couplets are discussed (formal or closed, run-on or enjambment, alexandrine,...
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Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary of literary and rhetorical terms in alphabetical order by Jack Lynch, Rutgers University. Click the desired link to find the definition.