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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: There Once Was?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore limericks. In this poetry writing lesson plan, students listen to and read a variety of poems written by Edward Lear. Students count syllables and identify meter by clapping as they read aloud. Students complete a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: There Once Was...

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars 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.