Learn About Rhyming and Acrostic Poems

In this activity, we are going to be looking at rhyming and acrostic poems.

 

Rhyming words have the same sound at the end like sand and land.

 

Can you think of any words that rhyme with cake?

 

What about make and bake?

 

Here is the first stanza (verse) of a rhyming poem:

 

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star by Jane Taylor

 

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are!

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky.

 

 

Can you see the rhyming words at the end of each line? These are written in bold.

Star rhymes with are and high rhymes with sky.

 

Here is another poem:

 

Black wings flying

Away from the cave

Tiny feet

Scratching away

 

 

This poem is called an acrostic poem.

 

If we join the first letters of each line in this poem, it spells the word BATS. The poem is about bats.

 

This acrostic poem doesn’t rhyme but some can rhyme.

 

To write an acrostic poem, pick a topic you’d like to write about and write that word down the side of the page.

If we wanted to write about dogs, we’d write the word 'dogs' down the side of the page.

 

D

O

G

S

 

Each line of the poem must then begin with a letter of the word 'dogs'.

 

Can you think of a line beginning with each letter of 'dogs'?

 

 

In this activity, we will read acrostic poems and answer questions about them.

Good luck.