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Rhyme, Alliteration and Rhythm: Sounds in Poems

  • Grade 3
  • English Language Arts
  • 1 min
  • British Columbia
  • BC3-EN-08

A two-line poem about hippos is read once plainly. Then the video finds three sounds in it: hum and drum rhyme because they end with the same sound, happy, hippos, hop and hum show alliteration because they start with the same sound, and four strong beats in each line make the rhythm. Each idea fills a labelled row beside two hippos who hop and drum on the beats, and the video ends on a one-line recap of all three over the fully marked poem.

Concept: Rhyme, rhythm and alliteration: sounds in poems

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The question this lesson answers

What sounds can you hear in a poem?

Here is a little poem about hippos.

Transcript

What the lesson says

What sounds can you hear in a poem?

Here is a little poem about hippos.

The happy hippos hop and hum.

They stamp their feet and bang a drum.

Listen to the ends of the lines: hum and drum.

Hum and drum end with the same sound, so they rhyme.

Now listen to the starts: happy, hippos, hop, hum.

Nearby words that start with the same sound make alliteration.

Now read it again and clap on the strong beats.

The happy hippos hop and hum.

They stamp their feet and bang a drum.

Each line has four strong beats.

The pattern of strong and weak beats is called rhythm.

Rhyme is the same end sound, alliteration is the same start sound, and rhythm is the pattern of beats.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 3

English Language Arts, Story/text: literary elements and devicesBC3-EN-08

Previous: Simile: comparing two different things with like or as

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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