In fact, there are plenty of poems for kids that are both entertaining and enlightening. From our earliest moments, we're surrounded by poetry in the form of nursery rhymes, storybooks and singalongs.

You can write rhyming poems by using pairs or groups of words that use the same sounds. This is called a rhyme scheme. Watch the following clip to learn how rhyme schemes work and to see an example.

Aimed at introducing children to a universe full of words, this 20x10 minute series is an interstellar journey to discover laugh out loud poems and rhymes. It's poetry but not as we know it!

Explain to the children that they are going to try and work out the words missing from the end of each rhyming couplet; a pair of lines from a poem where the final words of each line rhyme and ...

Words and sounds can establish a rhythm for your poem and capture the reader or listener's imagination, author Michelle ...