A twelve-part learning module with links to images, videos, and texts to use while learning about limericks.

A brief explanation of the structure of a limerick. Includes an example and links a Brainpop video as an example. Site also contains a link to a You-Tube video.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart teaches the poetry form of a limerick. Students determine the characteristics by analyzing sample limericks for rhyming pattern, line length and stressed syllables. As assessment,...

Move the five limerick parts into the correct order to create a completed poem. After three examples, students are encouraged to write their own limerick.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book More Nonsense by Edward Lear (1888), a book of illustrated nonsense limerick poems.

A detailed travel map of Ireland in 1908, showing all or portions of counties Clare, Limerick, Tipperary, and Waterford. The map shows first class and secondary roads, railways, cities, towns, ports, rivers, lakes, and terrain features...

A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Limerick."

This site tells what a limerick is and, gives a few instructions on how to write one. It also includes info on the traditions of the limerick.

This is a collection of printable cartoon and reading activities teachers can use with their younger ELL/ESL students. Materials include writing prompts, role and finger plays, limericks, and an activity on superlatives and comparatives.

A learning module that includes twenty-two links to videos, pictures, weblinks, charts, and activities about different types of poetry including couplet, cinquain, acrostic, diamante, limerick, free verse, lyric, narrative, concrete, and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces several types of poetry, gives the elements and examples of each type. The types of poetry include color poetry, limericks, free verse, and couplets.

This website helps students work with word patterns by having them create limericks and sentences. Students receive feedback and guidance as they work their way through the activities.

This tutorial focuses on different aspects of poetry: definitions, types of poetry with examples, and how to read, write, and analyze poetry. It includes three videos: a YouTube video of "El Guante" performing a free verse poem, a...

Click on these terms for an excellent definition of these poetic terms, some from the Oxford English Dictionary. Includes types of poetry as well as terms.

Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces a variety of poem types to students. It contains various forms of poetry with example poems.

A map of Western Ireland during the War of Two Kings (Williamite War or Jacobite War), showing the campaigns in the region in 1691, including the siege of Limerick on the River Shannon and the final Battle of Aughrim on 12 July, 1691.