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Tap, Bang, and Leap on New Year's Eve

Read a New Year's Eve poem, then tell apart verbs like tap and bang or hop and leap and strong words like exhausted and thrilled.

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Aligned toL.1.5.d

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 1
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students tell apart verbs that differ in manner, such as tap and bang or hop and leap.
Students tell apart adjectives that differ in strength, such as tired and exhausted or happy and thrilled.

How to use

Read the poem aloud, then let students tap, bang, hop and leap to feel the difference before they answer on their own.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.1.5.d

Tell apart shades of meaning among verbs that differ in manner (look, peek, glance, stare) and adjectives that differ in intensity (large, gigantic).

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Tap, Bang, and Leap on New Year's Eve

Tell apart words that show how we move and how strongly we feel.

Read the poem

Waiting for the New Year

1The year is almost over,
so we stay up late tonight.
We fold some paper party hats.
Our house is warm and bright.

2At nine, my brother Jun is sleepy.
He yawns and rubs his eyes.
At eleven, he's exhausted.
He flops down with heavy sighs.

3Grandma taps her spoon on a cup,
tap, tap, so soft and slow.
I bang my drum as hard as I can.
Bang, bang! Now here we go!

4We count, "Three, two, one!"
Jun gives a sleepy hop.
I leap across the rug.
I'm thrilled! I don't want to stop!

Words that show how

Some action words are close in meaning, but each one shows a different way to move.

Read stanza 4. Underline the sentence that shows a big jump.

We count, "Three, two, one!"Jun gives a sleepy hop.I leap across the rug.I'm thrilled!I don't want to stop!

Read stanza 3. Grandma taps, and the speaker bangs. What is different?

A. Grandma hits softly, and the speaker hits hard.
B. Grandma hits hard, and the speaker hits softly.
C. Grandma and the speaker both hit softly.
D. Grandma and the speaker both hit hard.

Does each word show a soft, gentle hit or a hard, loud hit? Sort the words.

patbangslamtappound

Soft and gentle	Hard and loud

Write the best word from the word bank in each sentence. Use each word one time.

Word bank: bangs · leap · hop · taps

1. Jun can on one foot, but only for a little while.
2. Mia softly on the door, so she won't wake Grandpa.
3. The wind is so strong that the door shut with a loud noise.
4. With one big, long jump, the cat can from the chair to the bed.