Free rhyme resources for teaching poetry, including rhyming worksheets, rhyme scheme activities, lesson plans, writing exercises, and classroom games.
Free printable alliteration & sound devices quiz with 10 questions and a teacher answer key for classroom poetry assessment and review.
Free high-school poetry lesson for analyzing and comparing medieval and modern ballads before students write and perform original ballads.
Free K–2 poetry activities using a weekly poem to teach meaning, vocabulary, rhyming words, sight words, phonics, sentence structure, print concepts, and comprehension.
Free K–2 poetry lesson combining pictures and words as students brainstorm rhymes, compose rebus poems, illustrate them, and share their writing.
Free K–2 poetry lesson using shared reading to teach rhyme, vocabulary, print concepts, word recognition, and early reading comprehension.
Free high-school poetry lesson in which students analyze traditional sonnets, chart rhyme scheme and meter, identify shared characteristics, and write an original sonnet.
A poetry-analysis quiz using Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 and William Blake's The Lamb to assess rhyme scheme, meter, syllables, poetic form, personification, imagery, refrain, sonnet structure, theme and literary techniques.
A classroom poetry quiz assessing assonance, consonance, point of view, repetition, rhyme, stanza, figurative language, personification, metaphor, simile, alliteration, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, rhyme scheme and effects of poetic devices.
A short printable poetry quiz covering stanza, rhythm, rhyme scheme identification, and a final eight-line poetry writing task using an ABCB rhyme scheme.
A detailed classroom presentation on meter, poetic feet, metrical line lengths, stanza forms, rhyme schemes, exact and near rhyme, internal rhyme, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, repetition, and examples from well-known poems.
A classroom presentation covering poetic rhythm, cadence, meter, metrical feet, scansion, stanza lengths, rhyme schemes, rhyme types, sound patterns, and examples from Shakespeare, Blake, Poe, Lear, Longfellow, and others.
Free printable poetry unit final assessment with 10 questions and a teacher answer key for classroom poetry assessment and review.
Free printable poetry unit pre-test with 10 questions and a teacher answer key for classroom poetry assessment and review.
A comprehensive poetry unit test covering sound devices, meter, stanza, rhyme scheme, figurative language, imagery, poetic forms, haiku, sonnet, limerick, free verse, narrative poetry, and written examples.
A nine-page poetry assessment built around The West Wind and additional exercises on rhyme scheme, alliteration, imagery, figurative language, rhythm, poetic forms, sound devices, stanza types, and poetry terminology.
An extensive eleven-page reference on rhyme in poetry covering end rhyme, internal rhyme, full and imperfect rhyme, pararhyme, eye rhyme, masculine and feminine rhyme, rhyming stanza forms, rhyme schemes, and the effects of rhyme.
Free printable rhyme scheme quiz with 10 questions and a teacher answer key for classroom poetry assessment and review.
Free printable sonnet quiz & assessment with 10 questions and a teacher answer key for classroom poetry assessment and review.
A broad classroom poetry teaching guide with activities for rhythm, rhyme, figurative language, simile, metaphor, alliteration, limerick, acrostic, diamante, shape poetry, haiku, cinquain, free verse, reading, writing, and performance.
A teacher-education study guide covering methods for teaching prose and poetry, including the aims of poetry instruction, rhyme, preparation, presentation, discussion, recitation, rhythm, vocabulary development, and appreciation.
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