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Guess What I Am – Poetry Reading Activity

A jungle-animal poem-writing exercise from TEFL publisher Team TEFL asks students to model a new poem on a sample poem included in the resource.
Grades
Grades 1–3
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Updated Mar 28, 2022

Subject
ELA, Literature, Poetry
Topic
animals, poem
Resource types
Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
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What's inside this resource

A model 'Guess What I Am' animal poem anchors a jungle-themed writing exercise from TEFL resource publisher Team TEFL, with the instruction: 'Each student chooses an animal from the jungle to write a poem about... similar in style to the one above.' The accompanying cover page confirms the resource ships as Google Apps, PDF, and PowerPoint versions and sets terms of use that allow printing and digital sharing with a purchaser's own students but prohibit resale, redistribution to others, or editing beyond filling in answers. The file's 'A1' label, paired with TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) branding throughout, suggests this may be leveled for English-language learners rather than tied to a specific native-English elementary grade. For students who need a more scaffolded structure than a single jungle-animal model to write from, an I Am poem template breaks the same style of descriptive poem into three sentence-starter stanzas.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Write an original poem describing a jungle animal, modeled after the style of a provided example poem.

Teaching tips

  • Read the sample poem aloud with students before assigning Exercise 1, since the instructions assume students have already seen a model poem in this file to imitate.

  • Confirm you can see the actual sample poem when opening the file yourself, since its text did not surface in an automated text scan of the PDF and may exist only as an image or design element on the page.

Skills covered

  • Descriptive animal poetry — students write an original poem about a jungle animal, modeled on a sample poem included in the resource.

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