Poetry Rhythm and Rhyme Teaching Resources :: 193

Lumen Learning

Lumen: Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts: Approaching Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This lesson focuses on the how to approach the analysis of poetry. It provides a series of student activities such as having students read and compare a draft and the final version of William Blake's "Tyger" which is followed by a...

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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: New and True: Rhymes and Rhythms by Mary Wiley Staver

For Students 1st - 5th

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book New and True: Rhymes and Rhythms and Histories Droll for Boys and Girls from Pole to Pole by Mary Wiley Staver (1892), a collection of illustrated poetry.

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Poetry: A Feast to Form Fluent Readers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

Students will learn how to use theory to practice methods to help them discuss the meaning of written texts. Student objectives and instructional plans are provided. Some resources on this link may need additional software to operate...

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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: The Elements of Poetry [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This is a 2-page PDF of a chart that lists eight elements of poetry, questions to ask concerning each element, and tips and explanations to aid the understanding of each element. RL.9-10.5 text structure effects

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British Library

British Library: Tennyson's the Charge of the Light Brigade: A Close Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th

In this activity, students will consider the context within which Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'. The poem immediately captured the public imagination, where it has remained, testimony to heroic failure,...

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Utah Education Network

Uen: Song Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th

This instructional activity engages students in writing lyrics to songs. Students will use free musical software to aid students as they put their lyrics to a tune and tempo.

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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 instructional activity ideas for teachers.

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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Animals Not to [Verb] With

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

In this lesson, young scholars will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.

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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Why Shakespeare Loved Iambic Pentameter

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Shakespeare sometimes gets a bad rap in high schools for his complex plots and antiquated language. But a quick peek into the rhythm of his words reveals a poet deeply rooted in the way people spoke in his time- and still speak today....

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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Emily Dickinson & Poetic Imagination: "Leap, Plashless"

For Teachers 9th - 10th

This lesson introduces students to Emily Dickinson's poetry which often reveals a child-like fascination with the natural world. Students examine how she writes perceptively of butterflies, birds, and bats and uses lucid metaphors to...

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Other

Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms

For Students 9th - 10th

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.

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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Noodle Alliteration

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards

This lesson allows students an opportunity to explore the dictionary and thesaurus to write creative alliterations about pasta after reading Jack Prelutsky's poem, "Spaghetti, Spaghetti."

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