Animal Children Collection: 28 Poems

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Years: K-2, 3-4

29 Pages

Product Code: TEAC1320

Resource Type: Classroom Resources

About this teaching resource

These poems come from a delightful book called Animal Children written by Edith Brown Kirkwood in 1913! You’ll find more poems in this collection here at Teachific. Here you will find a small collection of animal verses from the original book.

Each rhyming verse is about a different animal, and some of the animal features.

You will notice in the verses that the animals are sometimes described as if they were human! In the original book, Brown Kirkwood illustrated each animal whimsically dressed as a human.

Why not create your own class Big Book version of Animal Poems when exploring animals through a Unit of Study, or just for fun!

Children will love illustrating the verses.
Children will enjoy exploring more about each animal, particularly those animals that are less familiar.
Many children will also enjoy having copies of their own.

Reading these poems might also prompt students to write their own verses for animals they are exploring, or ones they know about.

Australian curriculum alignment

Year K

ACELT1606: Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts, for example nonsense words, spoonerisms, neologisms and puns.

Year 1

ACELT1585: Listen to, recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs, imitating and inventing sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme.

Year 2

ACELT1592: Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic, sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes and songs.

Year 3

ACELT1600: Discuss the nature and effects of some language devices used to enhance meaning and shape the reader’s reaction, including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose.

Year 4

ACELT1606: Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts, for example nonsense words, spoonerisms, neologisms and puns.