Students 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.

Third graders, while working in groups, identify five sets of words that rhyme in order to write and illustrate a storybook using rhyming words through a journal entry. They assess proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation in their...

In this vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 5 words and complete activities pertaining to these words: sentences, opposites, rhymes, puzzles and drawing pictures to show meaning.

Eighth graders focus on the Shakespearian sonnet as a form and analyze the sonnet in terms of structure, the particular rhyme scheme of the quatrains and the rhyming couplet, the rhythm of iambic pentameter, as well as any figurative...

Students complete a variety of activities related to the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty." They break a real egg and try to put it back together, and complete a class word web. Students also complete egg measurement activities and create...

In this My Pig Book worksheet, students write 5 words that rhyme with pig and 4words that begin with p. They solve one addition and one subtraction question about pigs and complete a pig word search. Students also answer what they...

In this vocabulary worksheet, learners participate in 30 activities pertaining to the 8 short words in a word bank. Students complete a word search, find rhymes, generate sentences and fill in missing words. These are easy 2 or 3 letter...

In this short vowel /o/worksheet, learners complete four picture clues with a word that rhymes with fog.

Students complete rhyming word activities. In this rhyming words lesson, students play an online game for rhyming words and recite a well known nursery rhyme as a class. Students pick out words from the poem that rhyme and brainstorm...

Students explore rhymes and reading.

In this hat shaped rhyming worksheet, students write a story or poem in rhyme. They realize that Dr. Seuss books are written in rhyme before attempting the writing on their own.

Identify the rhyme scheme in a instructional activity that features "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Readers use the nursery rhyme to reinforce poetic elements in four comprehension questions.

Add a little fun and fancy to English language arts with an activity that challenges scholars to write a limerick. Authors follow five rules in order to compose an original poem that contains a specific rhyme scheme. 

It's that time of year to consider how Shakespeare selects his images and structures his Sonnet 73 to develop the meaning of the poem. Class members examine the rhyme scheme, the indented lines, the conceit, and the images used in each...

Two sonnets provide seventh graders with examples of Shakespearean sonnets. After discussing the story of the poems and analyzing their rhyme scheme and rhythm, young poets craft a Shakespearian sonnet and share their work with two...

In this words that rhyme worksheet, students practice drawing a line from a word on the left to a word on the right that together rhyme with each other.

In this rhyming words worksheet, students match up the following five words on the left to the words on the right that they rhyme with: run, big, den, sit and can.

Track the poetic elements in any text with a guided reading worksheet. Kids note examples of consonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition, rhyme, and rhythm when reading a poem or story, and provide a short explanation as...

Encourage more pun-derstanding of word play in your literary scholars as they explore Brian P. Cleary's book Rhyme and Punishment: Adventures in Wordplay. Although this isn't suggested, consider beginning this study by simply showing...

In this rhyming worksheet, students read 10 CVC words, then circle the words that rhyme with cat. Next, students write the words that rhyme with cat in ABC order on the spaces provided. Students can color the picture of the cat when they...

Students listen to rhyming book, identify rhyming pairs, guess what rhyme words mean, and create list of rhyming pairs on chart paper. They then discuss Fifty States Quarters Program, identify objects on backs of state coins, and...

In this rhyming words learning exercise, 1st graders brainstorm and list all the words that rhyme with lock, hot, doll and pup on the lines provided.

High schoolers are given information about two popular sonnet forms-English and Italian. They are given the rules for writing a sonnet. Students are asked what type of sonnet they would use. They are each given a sheet of paper and...