Poems: Z Was Once a Piece of Zinc, K-2

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Years: K-2

5 Pages

Product Code: TEAC353

Resource Type: Classroom Resources

About this teaching resource

Edward Lear creates a whole lot of phonic/sound fun in his collection of nonsense rhymes!

In this Nonsense Alphabet Lear creates an alphabet of nonsense rhyming words. Each verse gives children an engaging opportunity to listen to and explore the same sound in words.

Z was Once a Piece of Zinc: Explores short i sound, as in zinc

Having fun with words in this way encourages extensive word and sound exploration to support phonological development. Before too long, students will become masters of the sound patterns, creating and adding their own words.

The importance of phonics, listening to sounds in words, is essential for reading and writing development.

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.