A Pizza Poem
P.6 English
Peter, Peter, Pizza-Eater
by Bruce Lansky
Peter, Peter, pizza-eater, tidy and clean
that wish
somethingHow I is that you were neater.
dirty and untidy
Half the pizza’s on your shirt.
Clean the mess, or no dessert.
sweet food, like ice-
cream, cake, etc.
Peter, Peter, pizza-eater,
How I wish that you were neater.
Half the pizza’s on your shirt.
Think: Who wrote the poem?
Clean the mess, or no dessert.
• Who would ask you to clean up after
eating?
• Who would say, ‘Tidy up quickly! If
not, you cannot have your ice- cream!’
Let’s read aloud!
Read these 2 words
again!
Do they sound alike?
Peter, Peter, pizza-eater,
How I wish that you were neater.
Half the pizza’s on your shirt.
We call them ‘rhymes’.
Clean the mess, or no dessert.
Rhymes
Peter, Peter, pizza-eater,
How I wish that you were neater.
Half the pizza’s on your shirt.
Clean the mess, or no dessert.
Are there any other rhyming
words in this poem?
Over to you!
Color the rhymes in your worksheet.