Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out

1. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out From Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

2. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout would not take the garbage out!

3. She�d scour the pots and scrape the pans, Candy the yams and spice the hams.

4. And though her daddy would scream and shout, She simply would not take the garbage out.

5. And so it piled up to the ceilings:

6. Coffee grounds, potato peelings, Brown bananas, rotten peas, Chunks of sour cottage cheese.

7. It filled the can, it covered the floor, It cracked the window and blocked the door

8. With bacon rinds and chicken bones, Drippy ends of ice cream cones, Prune pits, peach pits, orange peel, Gloppy glumps of cold oatmeal,

9. Pizza crusts and withered greens, Soggy beans and tangerines, Crusts of black burned buttered toast, Gristly bits of beefy roasts�

10. The garbage rolled on down the hall, It raised the roof, it broke the wall�

11. Greasy napkins, cookie crumbs, Globs of gooey bubble gum, Cellophane from green baloney Rubbery blubbery macaroni,

12. Peanut butter, caked and dry, Curdled milk and crusts of pie, Moldy melons, dried up mustard, Eggshells mixed with lemon custard

13. Cold french fries and rancid meat, Yellow lumps of Cream of Wheat

14. At last the garbage reached so high, That finally it touched the sky.

15. And all the neighbors moved away, And none of her friends would come to play.

16. And finally Sarah Cynthia Stout said, �OK, I�ll take the garbage out!�

17. But then of course it was too late� The garbage reached across the state, From New York to the Golden Gate.

18. And there, in the garbage she did hate, Poor Sarah met an awful fate, That I cannot right now relate Because the hour is much too late.

19. But children, remember Sarah Stout And always take the garbage out!

20. Grade Level: Late 1st Grade- Early 2nd  Grade Illinois State Standards: 1.A.1a Apply word analysis skills (e.g., phonics, word patterns) to recognize new words. 1.B.1a Establish purposes for reading, make predictions, connect important ideas, and link text to previous experiences and knowledge. 1.B.1d Read age-appropriate material aloud with fluency and accuracy.

21. Teaching Points Word Knowledge To identify rhyming words (Stout-out-shout, bones-cones, hall- wall , etc.) To explore the following word families: -all, -ay, -ate To distinguish between words that rhyme but have different spellings: -eel (peel) and �eal (oatmeal) - What Looks Right Activity - Word Sorts To increase sight word vocabulary: always, cold, away, yellow, green, black, out, high To discuss words with the following beginning blends: gl- (gloppy-glumps-globs), gr- (gristly-greasy), scr- (scream-scrape), and cr- (crusts- cracked) To identify alliteration (repetition of the initial consonant sound) within 1-2 lines (moldy melons, dried up mustard) To identify describing words (adjectives) and nouns. (brown bananas, rotten peas) Reading Strategies To predict what will happen next in the poem (What do you think Sarah Cynthia Stout will do?) To discuss and locate the author�s use of exaggeration (hyperbole). (Do you think the garbage really touched the sky?) To relate Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout�s experience to their own lives (personal connections). (Can you think of a time when you didn�t listen to your parents?)

22. Suggestions for Using this Text Introduce poem to class as a Shared Reading and set up so that it can be used in a center. Students can then read it with a small group, partner, or individually. Reading to Increase Fluency Choral Reading - Assign lines on slides or whole slides to individual students. -Read specific lines as whole class. Echo Reading -Students repeat lines after teacher or student leader. Using a pointer or frames, students can be asked to identify blends, sight words, initial consonant sound repetition, and rhyming words. Choose favorite slide and practice reading. Extension: Create own illustration for that slide.

23. Stefanie George Silverstein, S. (1974) Where the Sidewalk Ends. New York: Harper and Row Publishers