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
1 · Read
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.
2 · Watch
Take it off screen
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.