Underwater poems

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By Coral Rumble, Clive Riche, John Foster and Brian Moses

These five humorous poems are all on the same underwater theme but are different in style and form. They include limericks, a tongue-twister, word play and both rhyming and non-rhyming forms. The collection is suitable for work on Year 1 Poetry Planning Unit 3Poems on a theme and Year 2 Poetry Planning Unit 3Silly stuff (humorous poems and poems featuring language play).

These teachers’ notes accompany the PRINT ONLY guided reading leaflet in Literacy Time PLUS for Ages 5 to 7, January 2009.

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Before reading

  • Talk to the children about funny poems they have read and enjoyed or a poem you have read together.
  • Look at the pictures in the leaflet and read the titles of the poems. What is the leaflet about? Which poem do they think they will like best?
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  1. sarah
    on 3 January 2013

    poems

    Are these poems now online? If so, where can I find them? Thank you.

  2. lauren
    on 13 February 2012

    more wow words

    your poems are all great but they could do with some wow words

  3. jocelynmilner
    on 1 June 2010

    Which poem?

    WHere can I find the poems mentioned in this article?