Poetry Rhyme and Rhythm Worksheet
Ice cream poem with a summer feel: students count the beats in each line, pick out the rhyming words, and then write the next stanza themselves.

- Grades
- Grades 1–5, Elementary
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- ELA, Writing, Language Development, Pre-Reading
- Topic
- Rhyming, Poetry
- Resource types
- Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
- Preparation
- Print ready
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What's inside this resource
This worksheet can help your students identify words and phrases in a text that show examples of rhythm or rhyme. It's a great way to introduce or review poetry concepts!
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Identify rhyming words in a poem
- Count the beats in a line of poetry
- Write a stanza that continues a poem
Teaching tips
- Students could clap the beats of each line aloud before writing their counts.
Skills covered
- Rhythm — counting beats line by line in the poem
- Poetry writing — composing the next stanza
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