Poems: Five Little Meerkats, K-3

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Standard Resource

Years: K-2, 3-4

5 Pages

Product Code: TEAC215

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 joy to your listeners, readers and writers through poetry. 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.

Create a Big Book of poems from our collection for use during Shared Reading. (A4, enlarge to A3) Provide students with small versions of the same poems to enable independent practice.(A5, A4) Leave pages available for student illustrations, enabling them to fully engage in creating deep meaning.

For more ways to use poems during Shared Reading and Writing explore our mini lesson suggestions.

Poems for children help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world. Humorous poems tickle the funny bone of their imaginations. Charles Ghigna

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.