How Doth the Little Crocodile

Lewis Carroll

Teacher card

Published: 1865, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Length: 8 lines, 40 words, 1 word in 20 is long
Year band: Reading load: Years 5–6. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: birthday
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

“How doth the little crocodileImprove his shining tail,And pour the waters of the NileOn every golden scale!

“How cheerfully he seems to grin,How neatly spread his claws,And welcome little fishes inWith gently smiling jaws!”

Lewis Carroll (died 1898), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), lines 352–360 of Project Gutenberg ebook #11. Public domain in Australia: the author died before 1955. Copied word for word and checked against the ebook.

What to do with it

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Its lines are dealt for names in posy cardsin posy · 8 lines · about 5–10 min
Task for students (you can change the sentence before you print; nothing is saved)See how posy takes lines from this poem, then make a card for someone using them.
See how posy takes lines from this poem, then make a card for someone using them.
posy.popplepoetry.com/sources#ca-croc

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Link for the whole text

https://popplepoetry.com/find/carroll-how-doth-the-little-crocodile · popplepoetry.com