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Grade 3 Reading & Writing · World 8: Speak Up Stage · Level 70
Rhyme Scheme and Stanzas
Label rhyme schemes (AABB, ABAB, ABCB), count stanzas, and notice repetition and line breaks.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 70
- Poems are written in lines, and the lines are grouped into stanzas, like paragraphs. This poem has two stanzas.
- A rhyme scheme shows which lines rhyme. Gate gets A. Wait rhymes with gate, so it's A too. Knees is a new sound, B, and trees rhymes with it, B. So the pattern is A A B B.
- In Night Sky, high rhymes with sky, and hill rhymes with still. The rhymes take turns: A B A B.
- In My Dog Rufus, only the second and fourth lines rhyme: brown and town. That's A B C B.
- Poets also repeat lines to make a poem feel like a song. Notice Night Sky's metaphors, too: the moon is a lantern, and the night is a blanket!
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 3.T.T.4.a — Discuss and explain techniques used to present and design poetry, including rhyme scheme. (I)