RIC-0205 Discovering Poetry

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Comprehension and Word Study This poem describes some things about the vintage car that are different from modern cars. List five. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) What is similar about this vintage car and a modern sports car? Give two reasons why you think the vintage car doesn’t travel very far. Alliteration is the term used for a group of words beginning with the same letter. Alliteration has been used twice to describe the vintage car horn, (squeaky, squawky, squashy and honky horn). Use alliteration and write your own phrase to describe the following sounds. (a) police siren (b) excited children (c) crying baby (d) school bell or PA system Use the library and Internet to find images of vintage cars. Choose one image and sketch it. Write information about the car in your own words. ©R.I.C. Publications Low Resolution Images Display Copy R.I.C. Publications www.ricgroup.com.au 59 Discovering Poetry ISBN 978-1-86311-834-7
Listed below are different vehicles. Beneath each one write appropriate describing words to help you create a sentence containing the following parts of speech: (i) verbs expressing its actions and movements (ii) adjectives describing its appearance (iii) nouns describing some of its parts For example: A train (i) labours, glide, rocking, swaying (ii) sleek, smooth, streamlined, silver, solid, imposing (iii) engine, carriages, wheels, links, tracks Sleek, silver engine, solid, imposing, glides along smoothly with a gentle sway. A big transport rig (i) (ii) (iii) A bulldozer A hot air balloon A bicycle (i) (ii) (iii) (i) (ii) (iii) ©R.I.C. Publications Low Resolution Images Display Copy (i) (ii) (iii) Choose one of the vehicles and create an acrostic poem that gives the reader a mind picture about the strength, power and speed of your vehicle. Write the name of the vehicle vertically and begin each line of your poem with the letters in sequence. For example: R.I.C. Publications www.ricgroup.com.au 60 Discovering Poetry ISBN 978-1-86311-834-7
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Discovering Poetry uses 21st centur
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The activities in this book have be
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The Kite The Kite is a shape poem.
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The Kite To write a shape poem you
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Summer Berries Summer Berries is a
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Page 15 and 16: Antarctica Antarctica is a modern s
Page 17 and 18: Antarctica Think of different ways
Page 19 and 20: Air Raid Air Raid is a short narrat
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Page 23 and 24: Camel Ride Camel Ride is written in
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Page 27 and 28: Atomic Me A metaphor is a direct co
Page 29 and 30: Atomic Me There are nine planets in
Page 31 and 32: My Friend is a short narrative that
Page 33 and 34: All animals and creatures have some
Page 35 and 36: This is a short ballad, written in
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Page 39 and 40: Rollerblading and Skateboard Skite
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Page 43 and 44: This poem is an ode. The word ‘od
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Page 49 and 50: The person in this poem is not havi
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Page 53 and 54: Imagine that you are a computer. Yo
Page 55 and 56: This is a ballad. Ballad is the wor
Page 57 and 58: Name a creature or animal. (a) List
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