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Language Arts Idea #4
Rhyming Riddles
Objective:
Use what students have learned about the various fruits and
vegetables from "5 A Day Adventures" to describe fruits and
vegetables using rhyming verses.
Rationale:
This activity gives students an opportunity to think about
fruits and vegetables in terms of their color, shape, size,
texture, taste, and other facts about them such as where they
grow and ways to fit them into their "5 a Day". It also
incorporates the language arts skills of writing and using
rhyming words.
Materials:
'Rhyming Riddles' sheet
Notebook or construction paper for student-created riddles
Introduction:
Refer to or have students look at the section Serving Size
Land in "5 A Day Adventures". Point out how Stan and Sarah
speak in rhymes. Discuss rhyming words and riddles.
Class Activity:
Let the students practice making up a fruit or vegetable
riddle as a class. Prompt them by asking the color, shape,
etc. of the fruit or vegetable.
Group/Individual Activity:
* Give students the sheet 'Rhyming Riddles.' Read over the
instructions with them, and have them complete the
sheet as a group or individually.
* Give the students a chance to share their riddles with
others.
Related Activities:
* Have students write poems or descriptors in the shape of
the fruit or vegetable:
* Students may write limericks about fruits and vegetables.
A limerick consists of five lines. The first, second,
and fifth lines rhyme and lines three and four rhyme.
* Acrostic poems may be written by the students. Have them
write the name of a fruit or vegetable vertically on a
piece of paper. Then, a word or words are written next
to each letter of the vertical word such that a poem is
formed. For example,
A ll
P erfect
P eople
L ove
E ating apples!
Rhyming Riddles
Stan and Sarah love vegetables,
And of course they love their fruits.
No matter if they come from trees,
Or leaves or stems or roots.
Stan and Sarah like rhyming words.
They use them all the time.
Can you make up some riddles
And try to make them rhyme?
Try to answer this riddle!
I'm yellow and I'm sweet.
I'm what monkeys like to eat.
I grow in trees.
Serve me with peanut butter, please!
What am I? _______________________________
Now, make up riddles about other fruits and vegetables. Think
about:
Color, shape and size of fruits and vegetables
How does it taste?
How does it feel?
Why is it good for you?
What can you learn about the fruit or vegetable from its
color?
What are different ways to eat the fruit or vegetable?
5 A Day Adventures: Language Arts Idea # 4