Read the poem aloud making train movements. Tap your feet according to the beat or rhythm of the poem.
Then fill in a good title for the poem.



Read the poem and then answer these questions.


Where does the writer want to go?


What will he or she do there?


The writer mentions 2 different return times. What are these?




How do we know the writer will not be alone on the train?


Find words in the poem that rhyme with these words.
train stop way track


Read the followinglines of a poem aloud and listen to the rhythm. Underline the last words of each sentence. Then complete writing the poem by selecting rhyming sentences from the pink box and writing them in the correct spaces in the poem.





Little boy at the sea


On the beach and in the sun


We can swim and we can dive


On our bikes then home we go








Now write your own poem with rhyming pairs of sentences.
Write the poem in rough before you write it in your book

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