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Leaf Pile Poem: Rhyme and Reread

Grade 2 reading practice: reread a leaf pile poem and use rhyme, meaning and context to check, fix and understand words.

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Short answer

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What students practice

Students use rhyme and meaning to check and fix words in a poem.
Students reread a poem to confirm what a word means and what happens.

How to use

Read the poem aloud twice, then let students reread it on their own. Point out that a word must rhyme and also make sense before they choose it.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RF.2.4.c

Use context to confirm or fix word recognition and understanding, rereading as needed.

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Leaf Pile Poem: Rhyme and Reread

Use rhyme and meaning to check the words.

Read the poem

Read the poem. Each numbered part is a stanza. Reread it as many times as you need.

Leaf Pile Day

1The maple tree in Nana's yard
has dropped its leaves of red.
They cover up the grass and path
and Nana's garden bed.

2Nana hands me a rake. Then Jin
gets one that's just his size.
We rake the leaves into a heap
that grows before our eyes.

3"One, two, three!" we shout, and then
we jump into the heap.
The dry leaves crunch and crackle.
The pile is soft and deep.

4Jin pops up out of the pile
with leaves stuck to his nose.
I toss a handful up so high,
and down, down, down it goes.

5A breeze comes by and lifts the leaves.
They twirl up in the air.
They land on Jin, they land on me,
and stick in Nana's hair!

6We rake the pile back up once more.
Then Nana calls, "Come in!"
Jin leaves his rake beside the door
and runs in with a grin.

Use rhyme and meaning

Poems often rhyme. A word must rhyme and also make sense.

Reread stanzas 2 and 5. Write the missing word at the end of each line.

We rake the leaves into a heap
that grows before our .

They land on Jin, they land on me,
and stick in Nana's !

Ana read the last line of stanza 3 like this:
"The pile is soft and deer."
How can she tell that deer is wrong?

A. Deer has too many letters to fit the line.
B. It does not rhyme with heap or make sense.
C. The poem says the leaves are wet and hard.
D. The poem says no animals live in the yard.

Owen read these lines wrong. Match each line to the word he should have read instead of the bold word.

Jin pops up out of the pill
with leaves stuck to his rose.
They twirl up in the chair.
and runs in with a grain.

A. air
B. grin
C. pile
D. nose

Nana made up two new lines for the poem. Which word makes sense and rhymes?
The leaves are red, the sky is blue,
and Jin has leaves stuck in his ____.

A. hat
B. shoe
C. zoo
D. boot

Reread to understand

Reread the poem to check what words mean and what happens.

Reread stanza 1. The leaves cover Nana's garden bed. What is a bed in this poem?

A. a place where you sleep at night
B. a soft pile of dry leaves
C. a patch of dirt where plants grow
D. a wooden box for keeping toys

In stanza 3, the dry leaves crunch and crackle. What do the words crunch and crackle tell about?

A. the sounds the leaves make
B. the colors of the leaves
C. how the leaves smell
D. how tall the pile grows

Ben thought Jin took his rake inside. Reread stanza 6. Underline the sentence that shows Ben needs to fix his thinking.

We rake the pile back up once more.Then Nana calls, "Come in!"Jin leaves his rake beside the door and runs in with a grin.

In stanza 6, Jin leaves his rake beside the door. What does leaves mean in this sentence?

A. more than one leaf from a tree
B. rakes up into a big pile
C. jumps on top of something
D. puts down and walks away from

Tess read the second line of stanza 1 like this: "has dropped its leaves of bread." Bread rhymes with bed, but it is the wrong word. How can Tess tell? Write the word that makes sense.