Module 2 Poetry Break 2
5663 Poetry
Diana Stephens
"Dog Log" and "Cat Chat"
5663 Poetry
Diana Stephens
"Dog Log" and "Cat Chat"
Introduction: Explain to children ahead of time, that tomorrow we will be reading poems about cats and dogs. Ask students to bring pictures of these animals, of their own pets, or any other pictures from magazines or books.
On the next day, let students show their pictures and comment on them. Then read “Dog Log” to them from a sheet that has the two poems “bow wow meow meow” and “Cat Chat” typed on it side by side. Hold up the illustration for viewing.
“Dog Log” by Douglas Florian
Rolled out of bed.
Scratched my head.
Brought the mail.
Wagged my tail.
Fetched a stick.
Learned a trick.
Chased a hare.
Sat in a chair.
Chewed a shoe—
Table, too.
Got in a spat
With a cat.
Buried a bone.
Answered the phone.
Heard a thief.
Gave him grief.
Time to creep
Off to sleep.
Students read the poem again, one line for each student. Praise the reading.Ask students if they have any questions about the poem or the illustration, and ask them to comment on what they noticed or liked about it.
“Now let’s read a poem about a cat.” Hold up the illustration.
On the next day, let students show their pictures and comment on them. Then read “Dog Log” to them from a sheet that has the two poems “bow wow meow meow” and “Cat Chat” typed on it side by side. Hold up the illustration for viewing.
“Dog Log” by Douglas Florian
Rolled out of bed.
Scratched my head.
Brought the mail.
Wagged my tail.
Fetched a stick.
Learned a trick.
Chased a hare.
Sat in a chair.
Chewed a shoe—
Table, too.
Got in a spat
With a cat.
Buried a bone.
Answered the phone.
Heard a thief.
Gave him grief.
Time to creep
Off to sleep.
Students read the poem again, one line for each student. Praise the reading.Ask students if they have any questions about the poem or the illustration, and ask them to comment on what they noticed or liked about it.
“Now let’s read a poem about a cat.” Hold up the illustration.
"Cat Chat” by Douglas Florian
You have sharp claws
But velvet paws.
You chase down rats.
Race other cats.
You nap all day.
Then wake to play
With balls of string.
All night you sing.
You make a fuss.
You’re cur-i-ous.
You have soft fur
And love to purr.
You steal my chair
Then stare at the air.
You are a cat
And that is that.
Scat!
Students read the poem again, one line for each student. Praise the reading. Ask students if they have any questions, and ask them to comment on what they noticed or liked.
But velvet paws.
You chase down rats.
Race other cats.
You nap all day.
Then wake to play
With balls of string.
All night you sing.
You make a fuss.
You’re cur-i-ous.
You have soft fur
And love to purr.
You steal my chair
Then stare at the air.
You are a cat
And that is that.
Scat!
Students read the poem again, one line for each student. Praise the reading. Ask students if they have any questions, and ask them to comment on what they noticed or liked.
Extension Suggestions:
1. Divide the class in half and assign each half one of the two poems. Then direct the group reading the dog poem to read the first line, to which the other group responds by reading the first line of the cat poem, and so on, each group reading one line of their poem at a time until the last group reads, “Scat!”
2. Briefly discuss and show the other poems and illustrations in the book.
3. Introduce Sharon Creech’s Love That Dog, and have multiple copies available for silent and oral reading on another day.
4. Compare and contrast discussion: pass out an activity sheet with an outline of a dog and cat that overlap enough to create a Venn diagram. Discuss how dogs and cats are the same and different, especially referring to the qualities mentioned in the poems, and guide writing of these descriptions onto their Venn diagrams.
5. Students may use the phrases in the Venn diagram on the sheet to create more poems with illustrations, or write a compare/contrast paragraph about dogs and cats and illustrate it.
6. Have the deep thinkers explain what this quote might mean and whether they agree with it, (after you explain the meaning of prose,) “Cats are poetry; dogs are prose.”
Florian, Douglas. Bow Wow Meow Meow : It's Rhyming Cats and Dogs. New York: Harcourt Children's Books, 2003.
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