What makes children’s books so catchy? Why do we enjoy reading

them again and again?

In this lesson you will learn how poets make sound stand

out by marking rhyme scheme and reading aloud.

Let’s Review

Rhyme

Cat / Bat

Doom / Boom Writing / Fighting

Wow! They don’t need

to be spelled the same to

rhyme!?

A Common Mistake

The mat under the cat is flat.

Rhyme: Not just for babies!

Core LessonCore Lesson

I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

B

A

A

BC

C

Core LessonCore Lesson

Observe rhymes at the end of lines.1

2 Code each rhyme with a letter (A, B...)

3 Notice how rhyme makes words stand out.

In this lesson you have learned how poets make sound stand

out by marking rhyme scheme and reading aloud.

Guided Practice

Using the words at the ends of each line, mark the rhyme scheme for stanza 2.

Decide: How does rhyme make words stand out?

Continuous as the stars that shine- And twinkle on the Milky Way,They stretch'd in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bay:Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

Extension Activities

Write your own poem that uses the following rhyme schemes to make words stand out :

• ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG

• AABBCC, DEFDEF

Extension Activities

Read a rhyming children’s book and note the rhyming patterns.

Mark the rhyme scheme and think about the purposes of adding rhyme to children’s literature.

Quick QuizQuick Quiz

Read the final two stanzas of the poem. Then, mark the rhyme scheme and determine how the rhyme makes certain words stand out.

STANZA 3:

The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed—and gazed—but little thoughtWhat wealth the show to me had brought:

STANZA 4:

For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.