Poems: S Was a Snake - Nonsense Alphabet, K-3

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Years: K-2, 3-4

2 Pages

Product Code: TEAC307

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.

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

S was a Snake: Part of the Nonsense Alphabet by Edward Lear. Why not create a complete Big Book of the Nonsense Alphabet with student illustrations? You might even create your own class version of a nonsense alphabet.

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

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.