English Grade 5 Writing Rhymes

1. Writing Rhymes/Jingle Related to
the Selection Read
English V

2. Let us read the following words
correctly with initial /f/.
feed food fit
five face funny
fly fat fell
Phonic Drill

3. Recite your favorite jingle.
Writing Jingles or rhymes is really fun.
Today, we will try to write jingles or
rhymes. Later, I am sure you will love
and enjoy writing them.
Motivation

4. I will show a poem which I
will read while you listen.
Then, we will read the
poem together.
Presentation

5. Hurt No Living Thing
Hurt no living thing
Ladybird, not butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,
Nor cricket chirping cheerily,
Nor grasshopper so light to leap,
Nor dancing not, nor beetle fit,
Nor harmless worms that creep
A Text A Day/Presentation

6. 1. a. What is the poem about?
b. What are the animals or insects
mentioned in the poem?
c. Why should we not hurt them?
2. Give me a pair of words that have
the same ending sound.
Analysis and Discussion

7. thing-wing; leap-creep
3. Remember that the repetition of
identical similar concluding
syllables in different words, most
often at the end of the line, is
called rhyme scheme.
Analysis and Discussion

8. 4. Now, let us count the syllables in
each line.
Hurt no living thing
Ladybird, not butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,
Nor cricket chirping cheerily,
Nor grasshopper so light to leap,
Nor dancing not, nor beetle fit,
Nor harmless worms that creep
Analysis and Discussion

9. 5. The device wherein the type and
number of syllables/feet in a line of
verse is known as meter.
6. What words in the poem appeal to
our senses?
Analysis and Discussion

10. hurt - sense of touch
chirping - sense of hearing
light - sense of touch
fat dusty wings - sense of sight
7. The message of the rhyme is
revealed through the meaning of
words, images and symbols.
Analysis and Discussion

11. The use of words that evokes one
of the five senses are called images
and sense impression. The
arrangement of words and lines to fit
together is called structure.
Analysis and Discussion

12. What are the elements of rhymes,
poems or jingles that make them
pleasant to hear?
Generalization

13. You are going to write a jingle or a
rhyme with at lease four lines like the
one shown below.
Pat
He is called Pat,
The boy sitting on a mat,
For all the day, he eats and eats,
Now, all his clothes, nothing fits.
Application

14. Group 1 Activity: Recite the poem with
different emotions.
Let the class guess what emotion is being
portrayed by the group.
Two Boys Crying
Across the world
Two boys are crying,
Both wanting more
And tired of trying.
Enrichment

15. Group 2 Activity: Choose the word that
appeals to the senses. Tell what sense
does it appeal.
Shush
Oh, be quiet, Abeline
Children shouldn’t be heard, only seen,
And all you can do is stand and scream,
Just because your salad’s not quite clean.
Enrichment

16. Group 3 Activity: Rewrite the following
pairs of rhyming words.
Colored insects creep and crawl
Cockerels swagger, proud and tall
Snakes slither
Jellyfish quiver
Hedgehogs, rolling like a ball.
Enrichment

17. Group 4 Activity: Recite the jingle in your favorite
tune.
Kindness to Animals
My teacher says that animals
Deserve the best of fare;
Clean beds, fresh water, healthful food,
And every loving care.
And when their eyes look up to me –
Such deep and trusting eyes –
I wonder how one could forget
Or treat them otherwise.
Enrichment

18. Group 5 Activity: Complete the line by writing an
appropriate word that rhymes with the last word
above it.
Little Rabbit
Ray, see, rye, ray
Little Rabbit ran _____
Ree, ray, rye, ree
What did little Rabbit _____?
Or treat them otherwise.
Enrichment

19. Copy the missing words to complete
the line. Choose from the words in the
box.
way play bully day funny
Enrichment

20. way play bully day funny
Boy/Girl Story
Enrichment
I like her
because she’s sporty
in a sparky sort of ____
She’s good at rounders,
brill the cricket,
lets me kick in goals all
____.
I like him
because he’s ____
in a kindly sort of way.
He laughs at my jokes
doesn’t ____,
knows some super
tricks to ____.

21. Write a four-line jingle or rhyme
about the story entitled
“The Boy and the Worm”.
Be able to read your written work
in the class.
Enrichment