K12 Reader
Poetry Uses Rhyme
It's rhyme time! After reading a short article about poems that rhyme, kids take the time answer questions about the message of the passage.
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A Garden of Verses: Poems About Class Gardens
Students explore botany by participating in a language arts activity. In this garden poetry lesson plan, students read the classic poem "Mary, Mary Quite Contrary" and discuss the imagery and rhyming methods used. Students examine their...
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I Spy Poetry
Explore the components of rhythm and form through a reading of Jean Marzollo's I Spy books. After discussing Marzollo’s format, the class agrees upon a theme for a class book and topics that fit with that theme. Pupils write a poem,...
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Rhythm in Poetry: More Than Two Feet
Want to put some feet in your head? Check out an online lesson about spondees, dactyls, and anapests to bring new structure to your poetic forms.
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Discussing Poetry In Class
Learners investigate syllabic metre and rhyming techniques by analyzing poetry. In this language arts lesson, students read the poem Considering the Snail and discuss the nature and mood of the poem with their classmates....
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Words and Pictures - Write Your Own Poem
In this writing worksheet, students write lists of words that rhyme with the words throne, shrug, throat, and shred. They write sentences using the rhyming words and attempt to write a rhyming poem.
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Rhyme Schemes Lesson Plan
Scholars read four brief poems and analyze their word usage in order to identify the rhyme scheme.
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Write Your Own Poem 'ot'
In this rhyming words worksheet, students complete four exercises with rhyming words. Students identify the rhyming words, pair the words, write a silly sentence with the words, and make up their own poem.
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Write Your Own Poem 'ap'
In this rhyming words worksheet, students complete four activities that help them learn rhyming words containing 'ap.' Students color words that rhyme with cap, pair the rhyming words, make silly sentence with the words and a nonsense poem.
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Write Your Own Poem 'ill'
For this rhyming words worksheet, students complete four activities that help them learn consonant blend words using the 'ill' sound. Students make rhyming words using the blend, and make a silly sentence and poems with the words.
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Finding Rhyming Words in a French Poem
Explore rhyming in this phonemic awareness and French lesson plan. Listen to the poem "J'Adore la Pizza" by Karen Kransky and identify rhyming words. Compare grapheme spelling patterns with like phonemes, and sort word cards according to...
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Every Thing On It Lessons and Activities
Honor the great poet, Shel Silverstein with eighteen activities and lessons showcasing his collection of poems from the book, Every Thing On It. Activities challenge scholars to rhyme words, make inferences, recite a poem, and...
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Forced Rhymes and How to Avoid Them
Ready to take your poetry writing to the next level? Use an independent lesson to iron out all those forced rhymes, wrenched rhymes, and near rhymes from first-draft poems.
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Rhyming Word Poems
Students create poetry. In this poetry instructional activity, students read poetry and identify rhyming words using highlighters. Students may also add rhyming lines to the poetry they read.
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Spider Poems: The Spider and the Fly
Students review the information they gathered on different websites to write a poem about spiders. They use other websites to gain more information if needed. They share their poem with the class.
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Write You Own Poem 'et'
In this rhyming words learning exercise, students complete four exercises that help them use rhyming words to first write a silly sentence and then write a poem. Students use the words pet, wet, set, let, net, bet, vet, met, get, and jet.
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Write Your Own Poem 'en'
In this rhyming words activity, students complete four exercises that help them use rhyming words to first write a silly sentence and then write a poem. Students use the words Ben, den, fen, hen, Len, men, pen, ten, and then.
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Write Your Own Poem 'in'
In this rhyming words instructional activity, students complete four exercises that help them use rhyming words to first write a silly sentence and then write a poem. Students use the words bin, win, fin, din, pin, sin, tin, shin, thin,...
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More Spring Poems: The Bee And The Flower
In this literature worksheet, students read and discuss the poem "The Bee And The Flower," color the picture, underline or circle the rhyming words and then print the rhyming words on pages two through four on the lines provided.
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More Spring Poems: Buttercups
In this literature learning exercise, students read and discuss the poem "Buttercups," color the picture, underline the rhyming words and then write the rhyming words on pages two and three several times.
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Create a Poem
Learners write three simple rhyming poems and read them aloud with rhythm. Students select two adjectives that are opposites and two rhyming verbs to create rhyming lines of the same length with an adjective-noun-verb pattern.
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Write Your Own Poem 'ack'
In this rhyming words learning exercise, students complete four activities that help them learn words that contain the cluster 'ack.' Students spell words that contain the cluster, write a silly sentence with the words, and then compose...
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Valentine's Day Poems
Roses are red, violets are blue, poems are sweet, and educational too.
Teacher's Corner
Couplet
This, the fourth in a series of ten poetry writing activities, asks young poets to craft couplets.