RhymeTime

RhymeTime

( The Psalm of Life)​

By Bernalyn Francisco

Reading is a basic skill in order to strengthen language skills and enhances sentence structure.

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Oral​

Reading

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• ​VISUAL AND AUDITORY PROCESS

• ​COMPREHENSION

• FLUENCY

​In oral reading, the learners are expected to develop the ff. fundamental skills:

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A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in the final or in between of two or more words.

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The learners are able to read connected phrase and text instantly and accurately.

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• ​Internal

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R H Y M E​

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INSTRUCTIONS:

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Lets play an activity, it is called RhymeTime. ​Find the rhyming words at the end of the text and an internal rhyme in between of the phrase.

Multiple Choice

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

   Life is but an empty dream!

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

   And things are not what they seem.

• dream-seem

• numbers-dream

• seem-slumbers

• slumbers-dream

Multiple Choice

Life is real! Life is earnest!

   And the grave is not its goal;

Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

   Was not spoken of the soul.

• real-seal

• earnest-zest

• gold-goal

• soul-goal

Multiple Choice

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,

   Is our destined end or way;

But to act, that each to-morrow

   Find us farther than to-day.

• sorrow-cow

• tomorrow-way

• sorrow-crow

• away-today

Multiple Choice

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,

   And our hearts, though stout and brave,

Still, like muffled drums, are beating

   Funeral marches to the grave.

• fleeting-seeing

• grave-save

• muffled-supple

• beating-fleeting

Multiple Choice

In the world’s broad field of battle,

   In the bivouac of Life,

Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

   Be a hero in the strife!

• battle-settle

• cattle-kettle

• strife-life

• word-sold

Multiple Choice

Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!

   Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Act,— act in the living Present!

   Heart within, and God o’erhead!

• peasant-pleasant

• dead-dread

• present-scent

• dead-overhead

Multiple Choice

Lives of great men all remind us

   We can make our lives sublime,

And, departing, leave behind us

   Footprints on the sands of time;

• great-seat

• sublime-time

• time-lime

• sand-hand

Multiple Choice

Footprints, that perhaps another,

   Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,

A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,

   Seeing, shall take heart again.

• another-brother

• heart-part

• again-bane

• solemn-haim

Multiple Choice

Let us, then, be up and doing,

   With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

   Learn to labor and to wait.

• doing-pursuing

• fate-gate

• learn-earn

• wait-bait

Multiple Choice

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.'

Tis some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door;

Only this, and nothing more.'"

• dreary-weary

  napping-tapping

  rapping-rapping

  tapping

• weak-sick-dreary-quaint-napping-tapping

• chamber-door-more-visitor

• nodded-muttered-tapping-napping-clapping

Congratulations!

Good job :)​