What is this resource?
This resource is a collection of nine, specially written poems, offering a selection of eight different rhyme schemes as used by the great poets. Each poem is complete and then is shown again in a jumbled order. The resource is designed to teach how rhyme schemes work.
What problem does this resource solve?
In my experience the teaching of rhyme schemes often involves the teacher giving students a poem, explaining about how rhyme works, and offering a couple of common rhyme schemes , for example aabbcc, explaining how it works and then the student writes the appropriate letter at the end of the line and reads the poem back. But does that help to explain to the student how rhyme schemes works, in the way it alters structure, or does it just provide a passive process of identification?
How does this resource solve the problem?
This resource seeks to make the process of analysis more active.
A poem is presented to the students with the lines in tact but the ordering of the lines, the sequencing, jumbled up. The students read out the poem in its jumbled form and then experiment with rearranging the order of the lines to match particular rhyming schemes. A good practical way to do this is to cut up the lines so that they can be physically rearranged with ease. With each new arrangement encourage the students to read them out loud and they will hear and experiment with different rhyme schemes, and the process will seem like a puzzle to solve, even when they don’t know what a rhyme scheme is. They will hear that one version sounds better than another. Then at the end their best version can be read alongside the complete version.
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