This site provides poetry theater for emergent young readers. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will engage in "When I Was a Baby": A Poem in Two Voices. Students will read along in a play about a child who wonders why his mother no longer likes to hear him burp.

Concepts

plays, poetry, reader's theater

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Additional Tags

emergent readers, poem, poetry theater, "when i was a baby", giggle poetry, drama

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 1 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

RL.1.10 SL.K.3 SL.1.3