The Literacy Assistance Center’s Rhythm, Verse and Rhyme:

Rhyme Poetry Workshop
Poetry Scavenger Hunt

Directions: Test your knowledge about some noted children's authors, poets and poetic forms by answering the questions in the table below. Click on the web link to the right of each group of questions to hunt for the answers. If you use an activity like this with children, follow-up the online activity by having the group write their own interview questions for topic they want to know more about.

KAREN HESSE

Questions:

  • Out of the Dust is written in which poetic form?
  • Why did Hesse decide to write about the "dust bowl?"
  • What incident in Hesse’s life influenced the manner in which she depicts the death of Billie Jo’s mother?
Hesse
on the Web
LANGSTON HUGHES

Questions:

  • Which poets did Hughes claim were his influences?
  • In the Negro Speaks of Rivers, the speaker asserts that people of African descent possess wisdom no less profound than which three rivers?
  • How many decades did Hughes’ career span?

 
Hughes
on the Web
HAIKU

Questions:

  • What is Haiku?
  • What does kigo mean?
  • What is the name of the journal of the Haiku Society of America

 
Haiku
on the Web
MOTHER GOOSE

Questions:

  • What does the speaker in Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush do on Thursday morning?
  • How many people are going to St. Ives?
  • What is Winken, Blinken and Nod’s fishing net made of?
Mother Goose on the Web


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