Poem: You Never Hear the Garden Grow
From Between the Lions
1 minPre-KK1st2ndReading & Writing (ELA)
Summary
This video segment from Between the Lions features an animated poem about gardens by Lilian Moore that is rich with vocabulary. The poem tells about all of the grand things that happen as a garden grows, and it all happens without a sound. All text appears on screen.
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Discussion
"Poem: You Never Hear the Garden Grow" is all about listening for the sounds inside words — rhyming, blending, or breaking words into parts (focus: You Never Hear the Garden Grow).
- 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.