C10 · Complete teaching source

Complete original tiny verse: Paper feet, paper flap. / Fold a corner, tap, tap, tap. / On our drawn and dotted track, / Make a mark, then wander back. This is an invented rhyme about a paper drawing job, not instructions for children to move around.

Child invitation

Try the sound or rhythm quietly—or show the repeated words. What effect do they have for you?

Staff possible reasoning

Repeated tap and the rhyme flap/tap can give the verse a patterned playful sound. A reader may describe another effect.

Next teaching

Create two new lines for an imaginary drawing job and keep or change the repeated sound deliberately.

Limit

No compulsory voice, rhythm copying, music skill or physical action is required.