Read this poem about two girls, and
1)
how they turned an old bottle into
a wind chime.
Words
to know
wind chime: a pretty piece of glass, shell or metal th
near a door or a window, so that it makes a tinkling
wind blows
It's such a pretty bottle
Said one girl to the other.
She held it up to summer sky
dump: a place for putting rubbish or waste
junk: an old article that is not used anymore
dangling: hanging or swinging loosely
porch: a covered area in front of the house
as if she'd found a shell.
They were walking through the dump again
stepping over bicycles
1
READ
broken bricks and dinner plates--
this junk they knew so well.
Let's take and make a craft with it.
A. Answer these questions.
1. Who are the characters in the poem?
2. What does the first one hold up to the sky?
3. What was all around them?
4. What did they tie around the bottle?
5. Where did they hang it?
They scrubbed their bottle blue and clear
tied sparkling beads
of rainbow glass
B. Think and answer.
1. Have you ever seen a wind chime? What does it do?
2. Think of another suitable title for this poem.
with fancy knots
on dangling strings.
Then carefully they hung it high
APPRECIATION
from one long nail above the porch.
ALLITERATION
For many years this wind chime whispered
Twinkling tales of hidden kings.
The use of certain words in a poem creates an effect
of sound and rhythm in the poem. We have learnt
that rhyming words are used to create a rhythm.
Now, look at these lines from the poem.
She held it up to summer sky
Then carefully they hung it high
-Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
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Hlo what is it.
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who are the characters in the poem
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