How to write rhyming poetry 1: Rhyme Race (Simon Mole x National Literacy Trust)

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The video guides pupils to work in small groups or pairs to create a rhyme bank. Using their lists, pupils write a rhyming line to follow on from my example line:
There once was a poet called Simon Mole
We also explore how to avoid “rhyme Crimes” - using a rhyming word that has nothing to do with your poem!

This video is a fun warm up exercise, and could be followed with a video about how to write last lines of rhyming poems:    • How to write rhyming poetry 2: Rhyme ...  

Or a ten minute poetry challenge like this:    • How to write a poem in 10 minutes - f...  

This video is 1 of 10 made in partnership with the National Literacy Trust. The videos are part of a 5 lesson learning sequence that will be available free on the NLT website in May.
https://literacytrust.org.uk/

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