Curated OER
The Quatrain
Learners analyze the quatrain structure and rhyming in the song, "Puddles". They use this format to create their own quatrain lyrics for a song then they share their song ang revise it.
Curated OER
Sonnets and Poetic Dialogue
Seventh graders read a piece of work by Shakespeare and then write a sonnet.
Curated OER
Solid Waste
Students examine how to use their vocabulary, writing skills, and creative thinking to address environmental concerns in this unit. They write messages to using creative writing to address the issues of solid waste and recycling.
Curated OER
Poetry Search
In this Literature worksheet, students identify and locate vocabulary terms related to poetry. There are 27 words located in the word search.
Curated OER
Poetry
Sixth graders research famous poets. In this poetry lesson, 6th graders investigate poets and discover their famous literary works. Students conduct research using Internet resources and prepare a presentation.
Other
Millcrest Academy: Rhyme Scheme
This page lists and defines many poetic terms commonly associated with rhyme and rhyme scheme. Unfortunately, there are no examples given. The list includes the following: anapestic meter, blank verse, couplet, dactylic meter, end rhyme,...
Harold D. Underdown
How to Write a Picture Book With Fabulous Rhyme & Meter
An excellent resource for elementary writers looking to create or season a picture book with rhyming or metrical elements. Includes good advice and tips, as well as examples and links for further information.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Meter and Rhyme (English Ii Reading)
Analyze the meter, rhyme scheme, line length, punctuation, and word position in poetry.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Meter and Rhyme (English Ii Reading)
Analyze the meter, rhyme scheme, line length, punctuation, and word position in poetry.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Music From the Ashes
This is a self-guided learning unit on the topic of poetry. Included are lessons, self-assessments, background information, learning activities, and related literature. Learn how to analyze poetry, appreciate figurative language, and...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Text: Meter and Rhyme
OnTRACK English II Reading, Module 3, Lessons 1-12, and Practice Lessons 1-3. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry, drama, fiction, and literary non-fiction, and provide...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: I Caught It!
In this lesson, students read the book I Was Walking Down The Road by Sarah E. Barchas and Jack Kent and study the predictable rhythm and rhyme pattern. Then, students write their own sentences to mimic those patterns.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Phonological Awareness Activities [Pdf]
A series of ready-to-print cards filled with ideas and activities to increase students' recognition and understanding of rhyme and rhythm.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Phonological Awareness Activities [Pdf]
A series of ready-to-print cards filled with ideas and activities to increase students' recognition and understanding of rhyme and rhythm. In Spanish.
Harold D. Underdown
Rhyming Picture Books: For Those Who Must
An informational site which provides the rules of rhyme and meter for picture books. Also includes links for further reading and study.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Analyzing Poetry [Pdf]
This resource explains how to analyze a poem for its subject, narrator, tone, diction, and more. "Open" and "closed" poems are defined. Explanation are provided for "metrical feet" and "rhyme scheme" in poetry. William Shakespeare's "My...
Other
Lexiconic.net: Elements of Poetry
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,...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts: Literary Terms: A Guide
This is a guide to poetic literary terms such as meter and an explanation of several types of meter, types of stanzas, types of rhyme, etc.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: There Once Was...
Part 2 of this tutorial on limerick writing demonstrates the importance of form (meter and rhyme) in limerick poetry using the exemplary and amusing work of Edward Lear.
Other
Petrarch and Laura: Peter Sadlon: How to Write a Sonnet [Pdf]
This is an 8-page PDF article on "How to Write a Sonnet" by Peter Sadlon. It provides background information about sonnets, discusses the two main kinds of sonnet Italian or Petrarchan form and English or Shakespearean form. It explains...
TES Global
Blendspace: Sound Devices
A seven-part learning module with links to videos and a website to use while learning about literary devices relying on sound including alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme, repetition, and poetic meter and rhythm.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: How Do I Love Sonnets
In this lesson students will learn the meter and rhyme of a sonnet and they will write one of their own using specific word choice.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Answer to a Child's Question by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, literary critic, and a founder of the Romantic Movement in England, as well as a major influence on American transcendentalism. The following poem is, as the title suggests, the...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Emily Dickinson & Poetic Imagination: "Leap, Plashless"
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...