1. Teaching Poetry
Poems about PETS

2. Discuss with your partner and write down any names of animals which relate to ‘pets’. You can add more bubbles if you like.
Pets

3. Discuss with your partner and write down any action words which relate to ‘pets’. You can add more bubbles if you like.
Pets
climb

4. Discuss with your partner and write down any adjectives which relate to ‘pets’. You can add more bubbles if you like.
lovely
naughty
Pets

5. My Dog Read this poem. My dog is the cleverest animal of all,
He doesn’t just chase and catch a ball.
With eyes open wide,
He hurts when I hide.
He performs marvellous tricks,
Builds me camps out of sticks.
He’d never growl, scratch or bite,
But scares my friends if they fight.
My dog is my very best friend,
And I’ll look after him until the end.
Anon

6. My Dog Main focuses: How does the writer describe his dog?
What is the relationship between the dog and the poet?
My Dog
What kind of things the dog doesn’t do?
What kind of things does the dog like to do?

7. What it doesn’t like to do
Word games:
Work with your partner to list out any action verbs which relate to the dog in the poem.
What it likes to do
What it doesn’t like to do
Action verbs

8. Food for thought: What kind of writing is this?
Why does the poet write about his dog?
Do you think he likes his dog? How do you know?
Give a name to the dog. Give your reason.
Do you like dogs?
What kind of animals do you want to rear as pets? Give one reason.

9. Tips for teaching poems
It is essential for every reader to know and appreciate the whole poem. Never divide the class into groups and give each group part of the poem to learn.
It is important for learners to show their involvement and enjoyment through facial expressions and eye contact.
Clear speech and accurate pronunciation are of paramount importance.

10. About poems Nature of a poem Rhyming words (and repeated words)
1. What makes a poem different from other forms of writing?
(e.g. lines of text are shorter, it’s punctuated differently, rhyming words, repeated words, etc.)
Rhyming words (and repeated words)
What are rhyming words and repeated words?
Where do they usually appear in the text? (at the end of lines)
Why do writers use rhymes in poems? (to improve the sound of the poem, to link ideas and to create a sound pattern to help communicate ideas)
Underline and match the rhyming words in the text.

11. About poems Stress and rhythm Simile Metaphor Personification
Stated comparison of two dissimiliar things, using ‘like’ and ‘as’
Metaphor
Implied comparison
Personification
Giving human qualities to an animal, an object or an
abstract ideas

12. Lovely Unique Caring Young Pet poems Acrostic poems
Use the name of your pet to make a poem.
Lovely
Unique
Caring
Young
LUCY

13. Pet poems SNAKE – slithery, slimy, long, poisonous…
Think about words and images connected with the animals you describe. You may work in groups.
SNAKE – slithery, slimy, long, poisonous…
FISH – colourful, darting, scales, gills…
LION - large, strong, fearless, independent, roars …
Shape poems

14. Pet poems Shape poems The slippery slithery snake slides through the
grass.

15. Pet poems
Shape poems

16. Pet poems
Write a poem about your pet. Use the following ideas to help you.
What’s the name
of your pet?
Why do you like it? What is so special about it?
What it likes to
Do?
What it doesn’t like to do?

17. Pet poems My ________ My _________ is the ___________ of all.
You may use this structure to help your students to write.
My ________
My _________ is the ___________ of all.
He likes to _____________ and doesn’t ______
He doesn’t just _____: he likes to __________
But most of all he ____________________
He really enjoys _____________________
My ______ is my best friend,
And I’ll look after him until the end.
By ________________

18. Pet poems My __________ My _________ is the ___________ pet.
You may use this structure to help your students to write.
My __________
My _________ is the ___________ pet.
She isn’t any trouble.
She doesn’t __________.
She doesn’t _______________,
just _________
_____________
_____________.
By _______________

19. Rhyming words website
Rhyme zone
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