Writing Poetry
Write poetry, exploring patterns of language, rhyme and rhythm, and learning poems by heart for recitation with appropriate intonation
What a learner can do afterwards
- Write a simple poem using rhyming couplets or a repeated pattern
- Recite a poem from memory with expression and appropriate intonation
- Identify rhyme and rhythm patterns in poems read aloud
The lesson
You already know how to spot rhyming words and say a poem out loud. Now it is your turn to write one. Poems often follow a pattern. The ends of two lines can rhyme, or every line can start the same way.
Ben wrote a rhyming couplet: 'The moon is round and bright, / It glows up in the night.' Bright and night end with the same sound, so they rhyme.
When you recite your poem, do not use a flat voice. Slow down for the quiet parts, get louder for the exciting parts, and pause where the words tell you to breathe.
A poem can rhyme, repeat a pattern, or both, and reciting it well means using your voice to show how it feels.
Watch it
Where it sits
Where this leads
Jobs that lean on this skill. Follow one to see everything it is built on.
8 questions wait behind this lesson, each with its answer explained. Every answer feeds the sky: stars light as they are learned, and dim when it is time to come back.