Literacy Through Texts

Web Hunts

From Chapter 4 : Winners and Losers

Using the sites above learn about poems and the people who write them:

1. Where do Haiku poems come from?

a. America

b. China

c. India

d. Japan

2. How many lines do limericks have?

a. 3

b. 5

c. 7

d. 9

3. What does Poet, Brian Pattern, love to do?

a. Eat

b.Sleep

c. Fish

d. Travel

4. What kind of poem has a rhyme pattern of A-A-B-B?

a. Clerihews

b. Sound Poems

c. Tongue Twisters

d. Raps

5. Which poet wrote the poem, Let No One Steal Your Dreams?

a. Paul Cookson

b. Coral Rumble

c. Joan Poulson

d. Brian Moses

6. In the Teacher Zone it tells us how to write poems. How many syllables does it tell us a Tanka has?

a. 12

b. 25

c. 31

d. 47

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