1. Insects And The Dragon
Cricket Jackets
By Aileen Fisher

2. Recap 1. Who was the author of The Homework Machine?
Answer: Shel Silverstein
2. What did we learn about in the lesson?
Answer: Rhythm, Rhyme and different types of poems.
3. Was the homework machine a success?
Answer: No. It gave the wrong answer to a maths problem.

3. 4. What is a ‘contraption’?
Answer: A machine
5. What was the rhyming scheme
Answer: A, A, B, B, C, C, C, C, D, C
6. Can you name some of the types of poems that we looked at ?
Answer: Acrostics, cinquains, couplets, triplets and alphabet poems.

4. Today we are going to look at……….
Rhyming patterns in poems.
Using descriptive words in poems.

5. Guessing vocabulary from context
The cricket wears a jacket.
I think jacket means…
B. The jacket gets pinchy.
I think pinchy means…
C. The cricket cracks the jacket.
I think crack means…

6. D. The cricket puts its jacket on a bracket. I think bracket means…
E. The cricket sheds its jacket.
I think sheds means…
F. The cricket sheds its jacket with vigor.
I think vigor means…

7. 1. What is this poem about?
2. What problem does the cricket have?
3. How does the cricket solve his problem?

9. So, now we know that … 1. This poem is about crickets.
2. The problem is that the cricket’s jacket doesn’t fit correctly.
3. To solve the problem, the cricket cracks off his jacket and grows a new, bigger one.

10. Acrostic
Spider Spider People are scared of spiders. It has eight legs. Different spiders are venomous. Each spider builds different webs. Red-back spiders are venomous.

11. Cinquain
Spider Creepy, Scary Crawling, Spinning, Spying Hiding in the basement Waiting