Rhyming Poetry Second Grade Poems and Rhyme Activities Charades

Let's teach rhyme in poetry using a series of activities guaranteed to have your students asking for more! This resource offers your students to learn about rhyme thorugh class discussion and a super fun small group charades activity. Then, they'll practice some more with "My Neighbor's Dog is Purple." Students get visualization practice while they sketch out the beginning, middle, and end of the poem as you read aloud. There's even a writing prompt!

The resource is divided so you can use the entire thing in one class, or you can do part of it one day and the rest another day. So flexible!

You'll love how you get an amazing blend of activity types. There's whole group, small group, and independent work. There's paper-and-pencil activities, as well as action and movement. Learning about poetry just doens't get better than this for young learners!

Each low-prep activity comes with teacher instructions, step-by-step classroom procedures, and a checklist for any prep needed.

If you've got high-ability learners, you can differentiate easily by having them do the writing prompt while other learners do more rhyming practice. There are graphic organizers to support group work and all learners.

Included in this Rhyming and Poetry Resource:

✅ Teacher instructions and ideas

✅ Rhyming Charades
✅ "My Neighbor's Dog is Purple" Visualization Activity

✅ Writing Prompt
✅Keys and rubrics

Your second grade and third grade students will love these activities!

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⭐⭐WILLIAMS' MODEL OF CREATIVITY ⭐⭐
This lesson is based on Williams' Model of Creativity, a model designed to develop the traits of creativity in students. This particular resource focuses on these traits:

☀️ Fluency - the ability to generate a lot of ideas
☀️ Elaboration - the ability to expand upon ideas
☀️ Originality - the ability to come up with unique ideas that differ from the norm

☀️ Imagination - the ability to build mental pictures and visualize possibilities

In addition to addressing standards and providing an engaging and effective classroom experience, these activities will also build students' creativity skills.

Frequently Asked Questions:

1. How much exposure do students need to rhyme before this? Not very much! The first activity offers word-for-word procedure for teachers to lead a class discussion that can serve as review or quick direct instruction.

2. How hard is the charades activity for students to do? They should be just fine! There are sudent instructions as well as teacher instructions, and the graphic organizer is helpful as well. If you're curious, have a group try it out first before rolling it out to the entire class.

3. It says grades 2 - 3. Can I use this with my fourth graders (or first graders)? ELAR is particularly flexible as a content area as far as grade levels are concerned. This could definitely be used for first grade with support and fourth grade as well. The text is in list of CCSS poems for second grade.

4. I've never heard of the Williams' Model before. Is that a problem? Nope! These lessons are designed to be plug-and-play. I've done all the Williams' work for you (choosing traits to develop and strategies to use). All you need to do is use the activities. The activities will do the rest!

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