Lesson 4: Writing Poetry without Rhyme or Rhythm

Yvonne King April 20, 2018

In this lesson, students learn about alliteration and colorful words in poetry. Students are introduced to poetry that doesn’t have a strong rhythm or rhyme scheme. Students write a poem about an…

Lesson 3: Writing Poetry Counting Syllables

Yvonne King April 20, 2018

In this lesson, students learn to count the number of syllables in a line of peotry. They learn that a number pattern of syllables in a stanza causes rhythm. Students write a two-line rhyme with each…

Lesson 2: Writing Poetry Quatrains

Yvonne King April 20, 2018

In this lesson, students learn about different rhyme patterns in a 4-line poem or a poem with multiple 4-line stanzas. They write some 4-line poems. Lesson Plan Worksheet…

Lesson 1: Writing Poetry Couplets

Yvonne King April 20, 2018

In this lesson, students are introduced to writing poetry by writing two line rhymes. Lesson Plan Worksheet…

Lesson 4: Writing Poetry without Rhyme or Rhythm

Lesson Plan

Instructions for Student Poem

Student Template

Example Poem

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