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C. Answer the following questions.

a. Who is the narrator in this poem?
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b. What impression do the words give you about the narrator? Is he
afraid, cool?
c. What do you find strange about the language used in the first line
of the poem?

d. At the end, it seems that the child knows that a teacher is not a
monster even if he or she is unsure precisely what a teacher does.
Is the child comfortable at the end? Or is he or she still full of fear?

e. Copy the chart and place a tick in the boxes which tell us what the
child notices.
Noisy children Children playing games

Children wearing wellingtons Children who are much
larger than himself
Children not wearing uniform Quiet children

Puddles in the playground The school fence

Going the Extra Mile

'To keep out wolves and monsters', 'things that carry off and eat
children' shows that the child’s mind has been exposed to fairy

tales. Can you tell or write any fairy tale you have heard about
wolves or monsters and children?

Let’s Spell

A. The spelling errors in the poem show that this was written

by a young child who has yet to have good vocabulary. List
the words that are misspelled in the poem and write their
correct spellings.
_________ _________ _________ _________ _________

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