Inferencing

Poetry excerpts from the following books:

• If Not For The Cat by Jack Prelutsky
• Beast Feast by Douglas Florian

warm up

• The ______'s long and tacky tongue is snaking from its snout.
• A thousand termites riding in,
• but no one riding out.

#1

• Although it may seem very strange,
• The colors on a _____ change
• From mousy browns to leafy greens
• And several colors in between.

#2

• Big as a street - with fins, not feet-
• I'm full of blubber,
• With skin like rubber.
• When I breathe out,
• I spew a spout.

#3

• It has a long and crooked neck
• And giant feet to help it trek
• Across the hot, dry desert sands
• And over Asian prairie lands. Upon its back a hairy hump Arises like a beastly bump.

#4

• On August nights
• The ______lights blink
• ON and OFF
• Amongst the trees
• But have no need for batteries.

#5

• All night this mobile mammal mugs
• A myriad of flying bugs.
• And after its night out on the town,
• It likes to sleep upside down.

#6

• The ______'s brain is small-
• It only knows to eat and crawl,
• But for this creepy bug don't cry,
• It soon will be a butterfly.

#7

• Green as a leaf. Fast as a thief.
• My olive eyes are Oversized.
• My two antennae grow and spread.
• Like tapered threads upon my head.

#8

• They walk on tree limbs upside down
• A hundred feet above the ground,
• While down below beneath a mound
• They're building tunnels underground.

#9
I am slow I am.
Slowest of the slow I am.
In my tree I am.

Bonus #10
Safe inside my pouch
Sleeps the future of my kind-
Delicate and frail.

By Mrs. Megerle
ELA / Feb. 2015