Now That I Can Read
I used to need somebody
To sit and read to me.
I'd look at every page they read
And listen carefully
But now that I am in first grade.
I'm filling up a shelf
With stories, poems, and other books
That I can read by myself
Funny Words
English has some funny words
They give my mind the jitters
The sound the same to you and me,
But are spelled with different letters.
There's see and sea
And be and bee
It's terribly confusing!
There's new and knew
And through and threw
it's really not amusing!
There's deer and dear
And here and hear
it's horribly disturbing!
There's there and their
And bare and bear
It's really most perturbing!
Learning to Read
I'm trying hard to learn to read
But what's a kid to do
When there's a NO and a GO and a
SO and a HO
And then there's a word like TO!
Reading BONE and CONE and LONE
and TONE
Can almost be kind of fun,
But I get upset when I have to believe
That D-O-N-E spells DONE!
It's plain to see a kid like me
Sure needs a helping hand.
No matter how much I really try
I Just don't understand.
I'm trying hard to learn to read.
Somehow that's what I'll do.
But for now if you'll just read to me
Someday I'll read to you.
DONE
The Alphabet Monster
I'm the Alphabet Monster
And Nothing tastes better
To the Alphabet Monster
Than eating a letter.
A "j" and an "a"
And a "c" and a "k"
And the million more letters
I munch every day.
I'm hungry now.
What shall I do?
I think I'll eat
a "y"
an "o"
and a "u" . . . . . . that means YOU!
