Score

18
03-02-06-018-s

Name: Subject: Year 3 English

Date: Sheet: Poetry

Underline the correct spelling of the word in brackets to complete the rhyme.

A Sheep is Asleep On My Sofa

A sheep is asleep on my (sofa, soffa, sofer).

A sheep is asleep on my (flore, floor, florr).
A sheep is asleep in the (clozet, closett, closet),
and seems to be starting to (snore, snoor, snorr).

A sheep is asleep on my (dreser, dresser, dressar).

A sheep is asleep on my (bed, bedd, edb).
I found when I woke up this (morrning, morning, morneng),
a sheep was asleep on my (hedd, hed, head).

A few can be (found, fownd, foond) in the corner.

They're soundly (asleap, asleep, aslleep) in a heap.
There isn't a space in my (beddroom, bedroam, bedroom),
that isn't all covered in sheep.

With so many sheep in my bedroom,

I'm thinking I wasn't too (bright, brite, bryte),
and maybe I shouldn't have asked for
a sheepover (partee, partyy, party) last night.

-- Kenn Nesbitt
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Answer the questions below.

1. How many stanzas does this poem have? ____________

2. What does the author say he shouldn't have asked for? _________________________________

3. Think of two words that rhyme with heap: _________________________________

4. Think of two words that rhyme with night: _________________________________

5. Think of two words that rhyme with floor: _________________________________

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