Limerick Factory Creating a limerick

Suggestions for English Language Learners:                   

ESL Ideas      (B=Beginning, I=Intermediate, T=Transitional)
(B) Students listen to short poems, fables, folk tales, and myths. For some students, poems in their first language may be included with a synopsis in English. For non-literate students, oral tales may be transcribed in either English or in their first language.
(I, T) Students bring stories to class from their own culture, identify the genre and then compile them into a yearly ESL creative writing publication. This publication can be made available to other students and to the school community.
(I, T) Students listen to and read poetry, short stories, novels, plays, folktales, epics, nonfiction, science fiction, and myths, and then distinguish among the different forms according to their specific characteristics. See American Folklore  and Aesop's Fables for on-line resources.
(I, T) Students work with a partner to read poetry aloud.  Use Joyful Noise, Poems for Two Voices or I Am Phoenix, Poems for Two Voices, both by Paul Fleischman, if possible.