Students explore letter poems and experiment with writing letters as poems, using the placement of line breaks to enhance rhythm, sound, meaning, and appearance.

In this lesson students will re-create a campfire song with internal rhyme and rhythm.

In this lesson students will write 4-lined ballads about their relatives.

Four pages of with chants and street rhymes. Three of the pages are reproducible examples and information useful to learners, and one page gives lesson ideas for teachers.

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."

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

This site, which explores the influence of musical folk traditions in the poetry of Langston Hughes and Nicolas Guillen, provides lesson plans, a biography, examples of Hughes' poetry, and details about his meeting with Nicolas Guillen.