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Snip, Rip, Stick! A Collage Poem

Grade 2 fluency practice with an art-class poem: read sound words with expression, pause at end marks, and use rhymes to check each word.

Grade 2ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRF.2.4.b

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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 9 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 2
Subject
ELA
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students read sound words, questions and exclamations in a poem with fitting expression.
  • Students use commas, end marks and line breaks to pace a poem they read aloud.
  • Students use rhyme and meaning to check and fix words they misread.

How to use

Read the poem aloud for students once, then have them reread it in pairs before answering. Finish with partners performing their favorite stanza.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RF.2.4.b

Read grade-level text aloud with accuracy, an appropriate pace, and expression on repeated readings.

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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.

snipscissorssheetrrrripplopfingerwhiskers

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?
  • A. The word should rhyme with blue in line 3.
  • B. The word should name a color, like red.
  • C. The word should rhyme with snip in line 1.
  • D. The word should be a noise, like rrrrip.
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?
  • A. Stop for a long time after line 3.
  • B. Pause a little at the comma, then read on.
  • C. Make your voice go up at the end of line 3.
  • D. Read line 4 first, then go back to line 3.
6.
End marks tell your voice what to do. Sort these sentences from the poem by their end marks.
What will it be?Oh no!It is not a boat.I tip my head and look at that.Too much glue makes a sticky spot!A boat?
Ends with ! (say it with strong feeling)Ends with ? (let your voice go up)Ends with . (make a calm stop)
7.
Which line from the poem should you read in a proud, happy voice?
  • A. Ta-da! I made a stripy cat!
  • B. Oh no! The strip is stuck on me!
  • C. I tip my head and look at that.
  • D. Too much glue makes a sticky spot!

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?
  • A. Read it even faster to finish first.
  • B. Skip that line and start at line 2.
  • C. Whisper it so no one can hear it.
  • D. Slow down and pause at each comma.
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?

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