How to perform poetry  Say every word clearly  Which bits should be louder or quieter?  Which bits should be faster or slower?  Do you need pauses anywhere?  What about different voices?  Are any actions needed?  Would sound effects help anywhere?

Dice Score What to write 2 A game I like to play 3Someone I like 4A TV programme I like 5Something I like to wear 6 A nice place for a holiday 7Something I like to do 8An animal I like 9Something I like to eat 10A place I like outside home 11Something nice at school 12A place I like at home

What is a rhyme? A rhyme is something you hear. When two words end in the same vowel phoneme, or the same vowel-plus-consonant pair of phonemes, they rhyme. Examples: 1) sky, try 2) cat, hat You can't tell a rhyme just by looking at a word! Examples: Do these pairs rhyme? Do they look like rhymes? paid, saidblood, hoodweight, height eye, sighhome, foamchoose, use

Sometimes words almost rhyme, but not quite. We call this a half rhyme. Examples: neat, hatepeach, couchsorting, parting Benjamin Zephaniah uses these pairs of words which sound a bit alike but don't rhyme: gravity, heavenly freezing, believing magic, panic Can you find any others that he uses?

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