Poem: I Like It When It’s Mizzly
From Between the Lions
Summary
This video segment from Between the Lions recites a poem about the beauty of mizzly, rainy weather. The poem features many words that end with "y," and all text appears on screen. This video segment provides a resource for Fluency, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Language and Vocabulary Development, Letter Knowledge Awareness, and Phonological Awareness.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
"Poem: I Like It When It’s Mizzly" is all about listening for the sounds inside words — rhyming, blending, or breaking words into parts (focus: I Like It When It’s Mizzly).
- What sounds, rhymes, or word parts did you hear?
- How were the sounds put together or pulled apart?
- Can you make another word that plays with those same sounds?
Quick work-a-long
Practice: sound, rhyme, word part.
Try it: Pick a short word, say each sound slowly, then blend it back together — and think of one word that rhymes with it.