Your design may change one or more elements of the poem. Collect some information texts on ants. Children read a text and write 4-5 important facts about ants. Read the facts to your class. Make a class book.
Teachers can write the text, the children read it and respond with an illustration.
The poem can be used to teach children the elements of narrative writing as the poem includes characters, a setting, a problem and a solution. Children can be taught to include these elements in paragraph or poem which is about 6 - 7 sentences in length. Liz Stock is a Primary Teacher with 15 years experience. She has a B. Ed. in Education, Post Graduate Studies in Special Education and is a qualified Spalding educator. She has taught all year levels specializing in Lower Primary.