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THE UTTER ZOO ALPHABET
This is a great activity that you can use during
Literacy sessions when your range is poems. I've done this with
several classes and they've really enjoyed it. The activity
is based on the poem 'The Utter Zoo Alphabet' by Edward Gorey.
You'll need to get hold of a copy of the poem before you can
use the picture. The poem features in Quentin Blake's 'The
Puffin Book of Nonsense Verse' (ISBN
0-14-036660-1).
It starts,
The Ampoo is instensely neat,
Its head is small likewise its feet.
The object of the activity is for the children
to match the monsters mentioned in the poem with the corresponding
monster in the picture.
Thanks to Leon Cych you can access a PDF version
of the picture by CLICKING HERE.
The PDF files also features some additional
monsters. I used these to inspire the children to write their
own two line verses about their own monsters. They loved doing
this and we ended up with a huge book of poems about their monsters
for which they produced some excellent illustrations.
You can see a presentation of our monsters by click here
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