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Free Verse, Rhymed Verse, Haiku, and Limerick (Grade 5)

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Free Verse, Rhymed Verse, Haiku, and Limerick (Grade 5)

Writing four kinds of poems for Grade 5: choose a line with the right syllables for a haiku and the line that ends a limerick, then write a haiku, four lines of rhymed verse with an ABAB rhyme scheme, a limerick, and a few lines of free verse. With an answer key.

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Tell made-up stories from texts that give facts, and name kinds of texts by their features: fables, fairy tales, myths, tall tales, poems, plays, biographies and autobiographies; in Grades 6 to 8, the genres of fiction (realistic, historical, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, adventure) and the speeches of a play (dialogue, monologue, soliloquy, aside), and how a playwright shows a character through dialogue and stage directions.

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  • Bring a few real books or texts to the sheet: a storybook, a cookbook, a poem, a newspaper page.
  • Have the child give a clue from the text for each answer: talking animals, facts, rhymes, headings.
  • Ask what the text is for: to tell a story, to give facts, to persuade or to entertain.

Common mistakes

  • Thinking every book with pictures is fiction. Nonfiction books have pictures too.
  • Mixing up a biography, written by someone else, and an autobiography, written by the person.
  • Thinking an advertisement just gives information. It is written to sell or persuade.

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