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Write Poetry

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  • DOMAIN(S)
    Communication, Language, and Literacy (CLL)
  • INDICATOR(S)
    CLL8.4e
  • AGE GROUP(S)
    48-60 months

Give the children a simple model for a short poem and encourage them to compose a poem of their own. Choose an animal. Think of three things that animal does using “–ing” words. Put them in order like this with the animal name as the first and last line of the poem. Cats, Sleeping, Purring, Jumping, Cats Draw illustrations for your poem of all the things the animal is doing. Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stomping, Eating meat, Roaring, Tyrannosaurus Rex. This activity could be done in small group.  

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