Curated OER
Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: There Once Was?
Students explore limericks. For this poetry writing lesson, students listen to and read a variety of poems written by Edward Lear. Students count syllables and identify meter by clapping as they read aloud. Students complete a...
Curated OER
Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: There Once Was...
Learners recognize poetic devices including rhyme, syllabification, and meter. They identify the characteristics of a nonsense poem and of a limerick. They write their own limericks.