Children love rhythm and song. Rhyming poetry is music to children and they are drawn in by it. When my children were small, I would read Mother Goose, Dr. Seuss, and Shel Silverstein and many fun little books written in rhyme. They were the favorites. I would read the poems with inflection and feeling and, then, after a few times I would leave out the ending words and the kids would fill these in. A five year old can often fill in a left out word on the first reading if he is used to rhyme. At quiet time when the children were looking through a stack of…