ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a narrative intervention programme to enhance the understanding and facilitating the expression of narratives or stories in students with varied speech, language and communication needs in the later primary years and in secondary schools. It details the eighteenth session of the programme. A limerick is a popular form of poetry which is often comical, nonsensical or silly and sometimes even rude. A limerick is typically made up of five lines. It has a strict rhyme scheme and a catchy and bouncy rhythm. The limerick follows a specific rhythm, called an anapestic rhythm. A syllable is a sound structure with one vowel and one or more consonants. This session provides some examples of limericks. Facilitator need to read them a few times to the students and encourage them to comment on their typical rhyme and rhythmic structure, and invite them to identify the different story components using their story planner.
