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Kitten Zoom, Old Dog Snooze

Read two original poems about a zooming kitten and a sleepy old dog aloud, matching your pace and expression to each poem.

Grade 4ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRF.4.4.b

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 4
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students change their reading pace to fit the mood of a poem.
Students use commas, dashes and dots to pause when they read poetry aloud.
Students use rhyme to check that they read a poem accurately.

How to use

Have partners read each poem aloud twice, once for accuracy and once for expression. Then compare the two poems and talk about how each one should sound.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RF.4.4.b

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

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Kitten Zoom, Old Dog Snooze

Read two poems aloud with the pace and expression each one needs.

Read the first poem

Read the poem aloud two times. The numbers beside the poem show its stanzas.

Zoom Goes the Kitten

1Zip! goes the kitten, a blur of gray,
skidding on the rug where the sunbeams play.
Up on the sofa! Down on the chair!
Swat at a feather that floats in the air!

2Pounce on a slipper! Pounce on a shoe!
Pounce on a shadow—it pounces too!
Round goes the yarn, around and around,
unwinding and winding all over the ground.

3Faster and faster she circles the room,
over a pillow and under a broom.
CRASH! go the towels! CRASH! go the socks!
Out wiggles a kitten from the laundry box.

4Then slower... and slower... she pads down the hall.
She yawns a big yawn and curls up in a ball.
She snuggles up close to a warm, furry heap,
and the zoomiest kitten is soon fast asleep.

Stanza 1 has many exclamation marks (!). What do they tell you about how to read it?

A. The kitten is asking questions, so let your voice rise.
B. The kitten is full of energy, so read with quick excitement.
C. The lines are sad, so read them in a low, heavy voice.
D. The kitten is falling asleep, so read in a soft, slow voice.

Rhyming words can help you check your accuracy. Sam read the last line of stanza 2 as "unwinding and winding all over the grass." That line should rhyme with the line above it. Write the word that really ends the line.

The line really ends with the word .

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