The Click Clacker Machine
By Donna Lugg Pape
Prelutsky, Jack. The 20th Century children�s poetry treasury. Knopf: New York. 1999.
Introduction: Read �The Click Clacker Machine� to the students. Provide copies of the poem to the students. Divide the students into two groups and have group one begin reading the poem. Have group two join in at the beginning of the poem after group one starts the second sentence.
The Click Clacker Machine
By Donna Lugg Pape
The Click Clacker Machine
Makes clackers that click.
The clackers click quickly
but sometimes they stick.
When quick clicking clackers
are sticking, they crack.
Then the clackers are clickless
and put in a sack.
Sacked clackers are sent
to the clicking inspectors
Who all claim to be
Clickless clacker collectors.
Extension: Have the groups switch with group two starting the poem. For a final reading you could divide the group further and have the third group make �click-clacking� noises.