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Introduction to both poems: Ask students to describe common cat behaviors as you make a list on the board.
Kitten
The black kitten,
Arched stiff,
Dances sidewise
From behind
The chair, leaps,
Tears away with
Ears back, spins,
Lands crouched
Flat on the floor,
Sighting something
At nose level,
Her eyes round
As oranges, her
Hind legs marking
Time: then she
Pounces, cactus-
Clawed, upon
A strayed
Strand of fluff:
Can anyone
Believe that she
Doesn't ask us
To laugh?
Poem by Valerie Worth
Taken from Cats are Cats by Nancy Larrick, editor. Illustrated by Ed Young. New York: Philomel Books,
1988, p. 72. ISBN: 0399215174.
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