Poems: Betty Botter, K-4

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Years: 3-4, K-2

4 Pages

Product Code: TEAC171

Resource Type: Classroom Resources

About this teaching resource

'It is the joyous power of poetry that turns listeners into readers and readers into writers.' Charles Ghigna

Bring your listeners, readers and writers to life by sharing poems. We've sourced public domain poems to help create readers and writers who explore rhyme, rhythm, spelling patterns, letter knowledge, word meanings, punctuation; enable practice in fluency, expression, phrasing, visualising, predicting, connecting; and provide inspiration, motivate poetic innovations, explore literary devices and create writers.

All poems @ Teachific come ready to photocopy for shared reading (A4, enlarge to A3) as a class and personal readers (A5, A4) for independent reading.

Betty Botter: A bit of a tongue twister poem full of short vowel sounds and alliteration thanks to the letter B. Plenty of tongue twisting fun and quite a meaning making challenge. Try acting it out to help with comprehension. Why not add Betty Botter to your Big Book of Poems, and have your students provide the illustrations. (Small bordered paper is a simple way to contain illustrations to a small format, meaning you can have a Big Book page of whole class individual illustrations.)

For more ways to use poems during Shared Reading explore our mini lesson ideas.

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.