ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Poetry to Teach Reading & Writing
Lesson plan makes use of weekly poems for students to read, discuss, and study. Students compile a poetry portfolio to use for further learning in reading and writing, as well as engaging in interactive activities such as creative poetry...
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Poetry for Kids: Kenn Nesbitt's Online Rhyming Dictionary
Online rhyming dictionary from a site dedicated to poetry for kids. Type in a word, and it will provide rhyming words categorized by their number of syllables.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Identify and Create Rhyming Words
In this lesson plan students will listen to poetry or rhyming books and recognize rhyming words.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Writing Poems From Dragonfly Facts
In this activity, students create rhyming poems, first as a class, then on their own, using facts that they have learned about dragonflies.
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So You wanna.com: So You Wanna Learn About Poetic Form?
Discusses poetic form and the basic unit of form, the stanza. Also defines many related terms including couplet, triplet (tercets), quatrain, sesten (sestina), rhyme royal, ottava rima, Spenserian stanza, sonnet, and villanelle.
Arizona State University
Alberto Rios, Arizona State U.: Glossary of Rhymes
This is a very extensive list of rhymes that "Occur frequently in discussions of poetry and critical writing, but not with absolute consistency." All have definitions, and many have examples. They are organized into five categories:...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Daddy's Makings: Little Rhyming Undertakings by Daddy Dumkins
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Daddy's Makings: Little Rhyming Undertakings by Daddy Dumkins (1864), a collection of illustrated children's poems.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Sound & Rhyme
This lesson discusses the use of sound in poetry, mainly focusing on the use of rhyme. Various kinds of rhyme are defined (rhyme scheme, perfect rhyme, forced rhyme, slant rhyme, masculine rhyme, feminine rhyme, visual rhyme, and...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Writing Riddle Rhymes With Jean Marzollo
Children's author Jean Marzollo will teach you how to write "I Spy Riddle Rhymes"! There is a teacher's guide included.
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Rhyme Zone Rhyme Finder
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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Sebastian Swan: "Sebastian's Rhyme"
Help Sebastian Swan look for rhyming words when he goes exploring.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Guide to Shakespeare:couplet
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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Mama Lisa's World
Large list of nursery rhymes for children to read. Each nursery rhyme is accompanied by pictures and some even have sounds.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Which Words Rhyme?
Read and listen to the audio reading of sentences and short poems containing rhyming words. Then take a quiz to see which word in each sentence rhymes with the bolded word.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Learning About Limericks
[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,...
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Scholastic
Scholastic: Chants and Street Rhymes [Pdf]
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.
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Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic 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.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Writing a Bio Poem
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...
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Mother Goose: Simple Simon
Simple Simon is one of many Mother Gooses' nursery rhymes that students can enjoy reading.
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