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Dear Friends,

Lions…and Giraffes…and Babbits…oh my!

Shel Silverstein’s menagerie of beloved creatures has come together to help you Shelebrate National Poetry Month 2009 in “beastly” style.

Character favorites Lafcadio, Giraffe, Runny Babbit, and more are featured throughout the following activities, designed to provide you with suggestions and instructions for exploring poetry and language with children.

Each downloadable activity can be reproduced for an event, used in the classroom, or enjoyed at home.

Have fun!HarperCollins Children’s BooksMarketing Department

Reproducible Activity

Lafcadio the Lion Word Search


LafcadioHunter

Coconut

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junglesuitcasecircus

gentlemanelevator

tailor

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D T A I L O R W W M O F W KS R M K U Z B N V D C O X TS B O I D A C F A L L I F GY U R Q N O I L K L G W I EG W R E T N U H A R H E C NR J S C W E J M U Y L O J TG V Q E R U H M O E C R I LL A K O N S B K V O C M G ET X K G R A L A N I N O K MJ E L A C P T U R A I N Z AZ E M K D O T C G O W I D NG C E J R D U C U U Q A I GZ R K W W S M Q Z W J E K V

Look for the hidden words from

in the word search below. Remember that they can be horizontal, vertical,

diagonal, and backwards. Once you’ve found a word, circle it in the grid and

check it off from the word list. See an example below.

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Reproducible Activity www.shelsilverstein.com

Create your own poem using the words below from the book . Cut along the dotted lines to separate the words. Choose words to write your poem

and try them in different combinations. After you’ve completed your poem,tape or glue the words in place on a piece of paper. Then read

and try them in different combinations. After you’ve completed your poem,

to see how Shel Silverstein used these words in his poem.

✁Giraffe Cute Trunk Give

Junk Fruit Chose Lake

Saggin’ Bike Half Hair

You Laundry Skunk Flea

Dragon Suit Shrank Mail

Hard Have Rose Knee

Dressed And Bee Looked

Flute Stung Chair Wagon

Put Gave Played Comb

Found Cake Stretched Sat

Whale Climb Lived Tail

Jump Bought Silly Glue

Grew Ran To Away

Nose If With Fell

Bear A Stepped Bird

Pole In Rode Old

Mole Girl Hole Gave

Would Eating His Snake

On Shoe Hat Spike

Rat Hike The Flew

Create Your Own Poem

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Shape Poetry


Concrete poetry, also called shape or visual poetry, is poetry

in which the lines are arranged in the shape of what the poem is about. In this type of poem, shape is just as important as the words themselves and helps

further the meaning of the poem. Create your own concrete poem about Giraffe from

further the meaning of the poem. Create your own concrete by writing your words

along the outline of his image above. Start at Giraffe’s shoe, go up his back to his long curved neck, around his head, along his

fl ute and outstretched leg, and then back down to his shoe. Write about what Giraffe looks like, where he lives, what

he eats, and how he spends his days.

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Reproducible Activity

It’s a Zoo in Here!

Identify each creature from by drawing a line from the name and description that best fits the picture in the middle column.


The Gheli

One-LeggedZantz

The Considerate Soft-Shelled

Phizzint

The Bald-TopDroan

“Consider his feelings— Don’t ask him

to dance.”

“He’d love for you to scratch his belly.”

“Someone has mistaken this one for a pincushion

and he’s too polite to say he isn’t.”

“I’ll get awful, awful sick

If I give your head a lick.”

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What Is a Rebus?A rebus is a kind of puzzle in which letters, words, or pictures are combined to

convey a word, phrase, or sentence. The rebus puzzle boxes below portray a common word or phrase. Can you guess what they are?

Rebus #1 Rebus #2

Wish

Rebus #3

+Cream

Rebus #5 Use this space to create your own rebus using Shel Silverstein’s art,

or your own.

birthday+

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Answer: Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. Using his tail.


Solve the Cryptogram

Key:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z19 7 20 13 2 5 17 11 26 4 16 24 12 1 8 6 18 25 23 3 21 10 14 15 9 22

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Hint: The Lost Cat

14 2 20 19 1’ 3 5 26 1 13 3 11 2 20 19 3

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A cryptogram is a type of puzzle that consists of a short piece of writing in code. Replace each number with the corresponding letter in the key to solve the

cryptogram and decode the poem from (p. 151).


THE GLETCHER

See the Gletcher in his cage,

His claws are sharp, his teeth are double.

Thank heaven he’s locked up safe inside,

Or we’d all be in terrible trouble!

Imagination Isn’t AlwaysBlack-and-White

What do you think the Gletcher looks like? Read the poem below from and draw your own version of this whimsical creature.

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Make a Word LibGo mad: Make your own word lib using the poem below from (p. 83). First, build a word bank from the different parts of speech: noun, plural noun, adjective, and verb. Next, as you read Shel Silverstein’s poem, fill in each blank with a word from the column corresponding to the part of speech written below the blank. Have fun reading your story aloud.

Here’s a quick review of the parts of speech:

• A noun is the name of a person, place, or thing.

• A plural noun is more than one person, place, or thing.

• An adjective describes someone or something.

• A verb is an action word.

Noun1. 2. 3.4.

Plural Noun1. 2. 3.4.

How would you like to get hypnotized? deep, deep

into my . Now you’re getting , falling deep

Deep, deep, deep—asleep, And I have you in my power. the

for half an hour. Shine my shoes, my hair,

Wash out all my . Do my homework, scratch my

, Cook me up a great stack Of

, and go wash my . Get some

and fix the gate. Now wake up and your eyes. Wasn’t it

to be hypnotized?

(VERB)

(PLURAL NOUN) (ADJECTIVE)

(VERB)

(NOUN) (VERB)

(NOUN)

(NOUN) (ADJECTIVE)

(PLURAL NOUN) (NOUN) (PLURAL NOUN)

(VERB)

(ADJECTIVE)

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Adjective1. 2. 3.4.

Verb1. 2. 3.4.

Hypnotized


Organize students into small groups, selecting one person in each group to take notes. Provide each group with a photocopy of the decoder game

below and instruct them to work together to unscramble the words within each box. Remind students to use Shel Silverstein’s drawings from

to help them decode the phrases.

Runny Babbit mour yajesty kittle litten tash wub

hop tat babble buth mancy feal droud lum

frest biends chigh hairA

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Decoder Game

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POINTY-PEAKED PAVARIUS

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Word Finder

GLUB-TOOTHED SLINE

SLITHERGADEE

How many words can you make from the letters found in each creature’s name below?


What’s in a Name?An acrostic poem uses letters from a name or word to begin each line of the

poem. Each line must relate to or describe the topic word. Compose your own acrostic poem in the space below, using the example provided as your guide.

Write about your name, a friend’s name, a famous person, or a favorite animal, hobby, or sport. For an even greater challenge, try to make the lines rhyme.

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For example:

SHEL

Shel was a poet,

He wrote many a book.

Everyone loves them,

Let’s take a look!

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10. U

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ase” a

nd “

th

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u.”

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