A Creative Approach to Teaching Rhythm and Rhyme.

Cover -- HalfTitle -- Title -- Copyright -- 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 -- 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 -- Animal songs -- Zoom! -- Look closer -- A house made of books -- Just -- If -- Poer-trees -- Afterword -- Recommended resources.

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