Poems That Rhyme

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Poems That Rhyme

• By
• Janice Reed

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• Snow Day
• Mom, we want to know ,
• If we may play in the snow?
• , Down the hill we could go
• And make snowballs to throw.

J.Reed

• The last word in each line rhymes with know.

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Bees in the Trees

• I wonder if the bumble bees
• That buzz around our pepper trees
• Ever sneeze?
• Hildred Bach

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The first 2 lines rhyme and the last 2 lines
rhyme.

• A Kite
• I often sit and wish that I
• Could be a kite up in the sky,
• And ride upon the breeze and go
• Whichever way I chanced to blow.
• Anonymous

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• Snowfall
• Someone in the sky last night
• Had an awful pillow fight,
• And when I woke today I found
• All the feathers on the ground.
• Margaret Hillert

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Lets Practice

• I look very tall
• In the mirror on the ______.
• The cat climbed a tree.
• He sat and looked at _____.

wall
me
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Lets Practice

• We like to run and play
• On a hot summer _____.
• The boy was laughing at a dog
• Who was playing with a green _____.

day
frog
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• Prewriting
• Brainstorm a list of words that rhyme
• Think of a topic for your poem
• Choose the rhyming words you want to use in your
  poem

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List Rhyming Words

• Snake
• Cake
• Rake
• Make
• Lake
• Bake
• Wake
• Take

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Topic

• Snake
• Rhyming Words
• Snake
• Lake

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First Draft This is my first try.

• The green snake
• Crawled into the lake.

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Revise
How can I make my poem better?

• The green snake
• Crawled into the lake.
• The green, spotted snake
• Crawled slowly into the lake.

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Proofread

• Begin each line with a capital letter.
• Check your spelling.
• Use correct end marks.
• The green, spotted snake
• Crawled slowly into the lake.

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Publish How can we publish our poems?

• Use a word processor and add clip art.
• Make a class book.
• Display on a bulletin board.
• Make a class PowerPoint presentation.
• Read them to the class.
• Share your poem with someone at home.

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Works Cited

• English. Boston Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
• Maxwell, M. Listening Games For Elementary
  Grades.
• Washington, D.C. Acropolis, 1981.
• Poetry Place Anthology. New York Scholastic,
  1983.