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Snip, Rip, Stick! A Collage Poem

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Snip, Rip, Stick! A Collage Poem

Read an art-class poem aloud with the right pauses, sounds and feelings.

Read the poem

Read the poem aloud two times. Each stanza (group of lines) has a number.

Snip, Rip, Stick!

1Snip, snip, snip!
My scissors cut a strip.
A strip of red, a strip of blue,
a crinkly strip of silver too.

2Rrrrip! goes the yellow sheet.
I tear the edges, soft and neat.
Dab, dab, dab, just one small dot.
Too much glue makes a sticky spot!

3I press it down and count to three.
Oh no! The strip is stuck on me!
I flick my finger, flick it twice.
Plop! It lands. Now that is nice.

4What will it be? A boat? A hat?
I tip my head and look at that.
Two pointy ears, a curly tail,
and silver whiskers, long and pale.

5It is not a boat. It is not a hat.
Ta-da! I made a stripy cat!

1.
Sound words name a noise, so you read them like that noise. Circle the three sound words from the poem.

2.
Rhyming words help you check that you read each word correctly. Write the word from the same stanza that rhymes with each word.

Stanza 2: sheet rhymes with .
Stanza 3: twice rhymes with .
Stanza 4: tail rhymes with .

3.
Jada reads stanza 1 aloud. In line 2, she says "stripe" instead of "strip." Which clue can help her fix the word?
Question 3 options
4.
Ben reads the first line of stanza 3 aloud. He says, "I press it down and count three." Write the word he left out.

Ben left out the word .

Pauses and feelings

Commas, end marks and words like Oh no! tell your voice what to do.

5.
In stanza 4, line 3 is "Two pointy ears, a curly tail," and it ends with a comma. The idea keeps going on line 4. How should you read lines 3 and 4?
Question 5 options
6.
End marks tell your voice what to do. Sort these sentences from the poem by their end marks.
7.
Which line from the poem should you read in a proud, happy voice?
Question 7 options

A just-right pace

A just-right pace is not too fast and not too slow.

8.
Nico reads stanza 1 so fast that "Snip, snip, snip!" sounds like one long word. What should he do on his next reading?
Question 8 options
9.
Read the poem aloud two more times. On the last reading, pick one stanza and read it with lots of expression. Which stanza did you pick? How did you use your voice?