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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Rhythm and Rhyme

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the terms "Rhythm" and Rhyme" including the definition of each and literary examples of each.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Rhythm and Rhyming

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan engages students in the shared learning of different poems of the month. Students will clap different rhythms and then apply clapping patterns to different poems of the month. Each poem will contain different rhythms and...
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Other

Lexiconic.net: Elements of Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explains how to approach an analysis of a poem. It discusses assumptions people may have, the importance of reading it closely before analyzing it, looking at the stanza structure, the type of poem, the sound patterns,...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts: Approaching Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the how to approach the analysis of poetry. It provides a series of student activities such as having students read and compare a draft and the final version of William Blake's "Tyger" which is followed by a...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: The Elements of Poetry [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 2-page PDF of a chart that lists eight elements of poetry, questions to ask concerning each element, and tips and explanations to aid the understanding of each element. RL.9-10.5 text structure effects
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: New and True: Rhymes and Rhythms by Mary Wiley Staver

For Students 1st - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book New and True: Rhymes and Rhythms and Histories Droll for Boys and Girls from Pole to Pole by Mary Wiley Staver (1892), a collection of illustrated poetry.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Poetry: A Feast to Form Fluent Readers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students will learn how to use theory to practice methods to help them discuss the meaning of written texts. Student objectives and instructional plans are provided. Some resources on this link may need additional software to operate...
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British Library

British Library: Tennyson's the Charge of the Light Brigade: A Close Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will consider the context within which Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'. The poem immediately captured the public imagination, where it has remained, testimony to heroic failure,...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Chants and Street Rhymes [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Four pages of with chants and street rhymes. Three of the pages are reproducible examples and information useful to young scholars, and one page gives lesson ideas for teachers.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Why Shakespeare Loved Iambic Pentameter

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Shakespeare sometimes gets a bad rap in high schools for his complex plots and antiquated language. But a quick peek into the rhythm of his words reveals a poet deeply rooted in the way people spoke in his time- and still speak today....
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Other

Centre for Literacy in Primary Education: Poetryline: Poetic Forms and Devices

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource for learning about the different forms and devices used in poetry. Each item is linked to its own page which has examples of its use. Many of the pages have videos of authors reading their poems, and some have...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Song Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson engages students in writing lyrics to songs. Students will use free musical software to aid students as they put their lyrics to a tune and tempo.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Emily Dickinson & Poetic Imagination: "Leap, Plashless"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces students to Emily Dickinson's poetry which often reveals a child-like fascination with the natural world. Students examine how she writes perceptively of butterflies, birds, and bats and uses lucid metaphors to...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Ain't Gonna Rain No More

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students will re-create a campfire song with internal rhyme and rhythm.
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Handout
Other

Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Noodle Alliteration

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
This activity allows students an opportunity to explore the dictionary and thesaurus to write creative alliterations about pasta after reading Jack Prelutsky's poem, "Spaghetti, Spaghetti."
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Animals Not to [Verb] With

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, learners will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Langston Hughes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource focuses on the works of famous African-American author, Langston Hughes.
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Terms F R

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The second of three pages of simple definitions for literary terms. This page, F - R, covers forty-seven terms from "Fable," to "Romance."

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