The Beasts Beneath Our Feet
Beneath our feetway deep and downare beasts asleepin the cold, dark ground. Dig down through the layers of the Earth and travel back in time. Meet the trilobites that scuttled and crawled; the munching, crunching dinosaurs; and a herd of roaming woolly mammoths.
This rhyming read will take you on a prehistoric adventure!
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Beneath our feetway deep and downare beasts asleepin the cold, dark ground. Dig down through the layers of the Earth and travel back in time. Meet the trilobites that scuttled and crawled; the munching, crunching dinosaurs; and a herd of roaming woolly mammoths.
This rhyming read will take you on a prehistoric adventure!
If you would like to be invoiced for this product (or would like a different quantity), please email julia@chestnutbooks.co.uk with an order number and we’ll be happy to help.
Beneath our feetway deep and downare beasts asleepin the cold, dark ground. Dig down through the layers of the Earth and travel back in time. Meet the trilobites that scuttled and crawled; the munching, crunching dinosaurs; and a herd of roaming woolly mammoths.
This rhyming read will take you on a prehistoric adventure!
If you would like to be invoiced for this product (or would like a different quantity), please email julia@chestnutbooks.co.uk with an order number and we’ll be happy to help.
We love this poem because it is:
a non-fiction narrative poem that travels through prehistoric Earth
about evolution from trilobites to dinosaurs to wooly mammoths
includes a timeline of events
filled with vibrant & striking illustrations
Learning opportunities:
History ~ dinosaurs & evolution
History ~ developing a concept of the past
Reading ~ rhyming couplets
Reading ~ onomatopoeia
Grammar ~ use of questions & exclamations in poetry
S &. L ~ performance poetry: opportunities to consider how tone, actions & style change during the poem
Writing ~ consider how the layout of the text mirrors the content
Writing ~ write a short narrative poem using rhyming couplets about a dinosaur in the style of Beast Beneath Our Feet
