A Creative Approach to Teaching Rhythm and Rhyme by Croft, Andy -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half-Title Title Dedication Contents Introduction

Rhythm and rhyme Aims of the book The author

1 I can hear with my little ear: word games

Our school Everywhere we go Nursery rhyme knock-out Red, blue and green Hey Tim Three lions Tick-tock Straight-faced Yes and no Yes and no in Bulgarian I spy rhymes Name game Fortune telling

2 Round and around and around: repetition and rhythm

One Man Went to Mow Chicken Licken There’s a Hole in Our Classroom Peanuts For Want of a Nail The House that Jack Built

3 Rhymery primary: using rhyme in the classroom

Rhyme watch What rhyme is it Mr Wolf? The noisy farmyard The plum was too big Hush Little Baby Dingle Dangle Scarecrow I Know an Old Woman Rhyming food Rhyming holidays Rhyming jobs Rhyming pets Rhyming colours Rhyming football fans

4 Don’t write anything down: whole-class improvisations

The Howl in the Hall Voting with your imagination Whole-school adventure Zoo time Sound story poems Sound story-picture-poems Sound and shape story poems

5 Writing with your ears: sound and rhythm

Bananas Snooky Brillig Sausages Head, shoulders, pigs and ducks Ben’s bedroom Alliteration à la carte Sibilance Clever clogs Kennings Tongue twisters Spoonerisms Number PL8 poems Book titles Punland Knock-knock Holiday in Punland

6 Reading the metre: syllables and patterns

Name syllables Stressed syllables Slugs don’t like marmalade Everywhere that Mary went Iambs Trochees Skipping rhythms Variations Masculine rhymes Feminine rhymes Long words and short words Half rhymes Assonance Different spelling, same sound Same spelling, different sound No rhymes When and where to rhyme Hidden rhymes Stanzas

7 Simile – you’re on camera: non-rhyming poetry

Poetry pies Do-it-yourself (DIY) poems Direction poems How to wear a pair of trousers The colour of emotion Slow-mo poems Horse and carriage Animal songs Mr Men poems Zoom! Look closer A house made of books But Just If Poer-trees

Afterword Recommended resources Copyright

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