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Year 1 Poetry Unit

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Year 1 Poetry Unit

Read the poem, then try the activities. Say the poem aloud to hear its sounds and beat. For writing questions, your own ideas can be different from the examples.

The City Bus

Tui and Zoe ride the bus through town. The wheels go round and round. The driver gives a friendly beep, Then slows beside the sound. Mere sees a shop with a red, red sign. The bus goes past the park. The doors go hiss, the people hop— The bus rolls on, not dark!

1.In the poem, what do the wheels do?
  • They go round and round.
  • They beep and beep.
  • They hop up and down.
2.Which pair of words from the poem rhymes?
  • town and round
  • park and sign
  • bus and shop
3.Find the sound word that tells what the bus doors do. Write it here.
4.Match each word to a word that rhymes with it.
  • beep
  • sign
  • shop
  • fine
  • hop
  • deep
5.The poem says the sign is red, red. What word is repeated?
6.Which word could you add to make a rhyming line? “The bus goes past the park, / A little bird sings in the ___.”
  • dark
  • shop
  • wheel
7.Make up a sound word for a bus passing by. Then say what sound it makes.
8.Write two short lines for a poem about riding on a bus. Try to make the last words rhyme.
9. Draw one thing you might see on a bus ride. Add a word or a short line to go with your picture.

3 printable pages

  • Year 1 Poetry Unit, page 1 of 3: The City Bus

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  • Year 1 Poetry Unit, page 2 of 3: 4. Match each word to a word that rhymes with it.

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  • Year 1 Poetry Unit, page 3 of 3: 9. Draw one thing you might see on a bus ride. Add a word or a short line to go with

    Page 3

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