These are all of my poems which are about, or which mention animals. I have also provided a brief description of the figurative writing and poetic techniques that are used in each one to help you to ascertain which ones will be most useful in teaching or learning these specific things.
Consonant Classes
Debra the Zebra did consonance classes
And Rodger the Badger did too;
Murtle the Turtle joined in the learning
In class at the consonance zoo. [click to continue…]
Last night we had a visitor
Who called upon our school.
They usually come in the day
(That is the general rule). [click to continue…]
This is nothing more than a silly poem based on the original nursery rhyme, and using the same rhyme and rhythm pattern.
Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was dirty black
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This alternative story of Mary and her little lamb includes the original simile and a new metaphor. Other than that, is just a silly poem using the same rhyme and rhythm pattern, but telling an entirely different story with not quite the same pleasantries as the original nursery rhyme! [click to continue…]
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This factual mining poem about the role of the canary in Victorian mines uses personification and metaphors to describe the way a miner felt about these life-saving birds. [click to continue…]
