Teaching English through poems and short stories Why is it absent from so many efl classrooms?

mean / clean; below / go.

Help them write another poem individually, in pairs, or as a group using the words selected and about the same topic.

Seeing the spider climbing up the wall,

My first thought was, ‘it will fall!‘ I was also so afraid

When I saw the web it’s just made!

Then I shouted, ‘spiders are so mean!’ But then I saw how the room was clean. I sat with all the children down below

And said, ‘little spider, please, don’t go!’

As a follow-up activity, you can ask them to read it

aloud, and draw a picture of a spider.

Young Learners

Acrostic Poems

• Show the child how to write an acrostic poem, in which the first letter of each line spells out his or her name, when read top to bottom.
• Once the child writes a poem based on his or her own name, the child can write about family members, friends, or pets.
• If the children are too young, you can ask them to draw rather than write, and read it aloud.

K angaroos live in Australia

A lligators like dirty rivers

I nsects are everywhere and

O ctopuses live in the sea.

H orses are strong and

E lephants too. My

N ose moves like

R abbits noses when

I nsects bite it.

Q uack, a duck said when it saw an

U mbrella protecting an

E gg from the rain!