I am hungry as a horse.

                                                       

You run like a rabbit.

                                                                                                                                           

He is sneaky as a snake.

She is happy as a clam.

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• Topic: dark • Topic: cold

The girl was a fish in the water.

The clown was a feather floating away.

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• Topic: the moon • Topic: the ocean

                                                            

The flowers danced in the wind.

The Earth coughed and choked in all of the pollution.

The friendly gates welcomed us.

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• Topic: a shoe • Topic: a basketball

                                                            

Stan the strong surfer saved several swimmers on Saturday.

Tiny Tommy Thomson takes toy trucks to Timmy’s on Tuesday.

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• Topic: Letter s, a snake

• Topic: Letter d, a dog

                                               

Chug chug chug!!

Swish swish swish

Yeeeeee Ahhhhhhhh

Glippp Gluppp Gluppp

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• Topic: A door slams • Topic: floor creaks

Rhyme Scheme

• All poems have a different ways in which rhyming words are placed

• This effects the flow of the poem and how the poem is read

INVITATION

If you are a dreamer, come in.

If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,

A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer . . .

If you’re a pretender, come sit by my fire,

For we have some flax golden tales to spin.

Come in!

Come in!

Rhyme Scheme Letters

• Rhyme schemes are often identified with letter patterns

• Pairs or rhyming word families are assigned the same letter

• The poem “Homemade Boat” follows a simple AB rhyme scheme

Homemade Boat

This boat that we just built is just fine--

And don't try to tell us it's not.

The sides and the back are divine--

It's the bottom I guess we forgot....