Poetry Writing Lesson Plan, Rhyming Schemes, Thesaurus Usage, Teaching Elementary

POETRY WRITING LESSON PLAN

Materials

Poetry Writing Lesson - Use the printable lesson for your lesson plan, or use as a lesson supplement.

Procedure:

Students should read the lesson, and complete the worksheet. As an option, teachers may also use the lesson as part of a classroom lesson plan.

Excerpt from Lesson:

You can write poetry! It may seem hard, but by starting with a few form poems, you'll be well on your way to writing poems about any topic!

Rhyme Scheme

Rhyming words are words that have the same ending sound. Here are some examples:

Rhyme, Time, Mime, Lime, Chime, Thyme

Notice that not all of the words are spelled the same, but they do all sound the same.

In poetry, a Rhyme Scheme is the pattern that rhyming words take at the end of the lines in the poems. Rhyme schemes are often labeled with letters to show which lines rhyme. A new letter is assigned to each new sound.

Here is an example:

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LESSON: POETRY WRITING

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POETRY WRITING