Activities and Texts with Rhymes for Literacy

The rhymes, full of rhythm, sensitivity and musicality, are perfect to introduce the little ones to reading, helping children's literacy in a fun way. That's right, rhymes facilitate learning, making the exercise of reading and writing poems an excellent strategy for teaching children to read and write.

Below we will leave some activities and texts with rhymes for literacy, for you to practice with the little one(s) in a fun and interactive way:

The Blue Boy – Cecília Meireles

the boy wants a donkey
to walk around.
A gentle donkey,
don't run or jump,
but who knows how to talk.

the boy wants a donkey
who knows how to say
the name of the rivers,
of the mountains, of the flowers,
– of everything that appears.

the boy wants a donkey
who knows how to invent beautiful stories
with people and animals
and with little boats at sea.

And the two will go out into the world
which is like a garden
just wider
and maybe longer
and that it has no end.

(Whoever knows of a donkey like that,
can write
to Rua das Casas,
Number of Ports,
to the Blue Boy who cannot read.)

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Point of View – Pedro Bandeira

I'm small, they tell me,
and I get very angry.
I have to look at everyone
with the chin up.

But if ant spoke
and see me from the ground,
I was going to say, for sure:
— Good God, how big!

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A Lua went to the Cinema – Paulo Leminski

The moon went to the movies,
a funny movie was on,
the story of a star
who didn't have a boyfriend.

There wasn't because it was just
a very small star,
of those that, when erased,
no one will say, what a pity!

It was a star alone,
no one looked at her,
and all the light she had
it fit in a window.

the moon was so sad
with that love story,
that even today the moon insists:
– Dawn, please!

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