📖 Part 1: Understanding Poetry

1. What is poetry? Circle the best answer:

A special kind of writing that uses words creatively

Only stories about animals

Writing that has no pattern

2. Why do people write poems? Tick all that apply:

To share feelings

To tell stories in a creative way

To express ideas

To make people laugh

3. A stanza is:

A group of lines in a poem

A type of rhyme

The title of a poem

🎵 Part 2: Finding Rhymes and Stanzas

4. Read this short poem and answer the questions below:

The little cat sat on a mat,
She wore a bright red hat.

She played all day in the sun,
Until the day was done.

5. Circle the rhyming words in the poem above.

6. How many stanzas does this poem have? ____

7. Write two words that rhyme with "play":

_____________ and _____________

8. Find a rhyming pair from the poem and write them here:

_____________ and _____________

9. What is your favourite poem we read today? Why do you like it?

10. Complete this sentence: "Poems are special because..."

11. Extension Activity: Try writing your own two-line rhyming poem about something you enjoy:

12. Draw a picture to go with your poem or your favourite poem from today: