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Pre-reading
1.	Many well-known words in English echo sounds. Here are some examples:
	tick-tock, clang, hiss.
	Add some other common words to this list.
During reading
2.	As you noticed in Jabberwocky, poets are not always serious when they write poetry. In this poem, the poet has had fun with sounds. Say the words aloud and enjoy the wordplay – in this case, onomatopoeia.

TRIS-TRAS

Alastair Reid

Is scissors cutting paper.

kinclunk is a car

going over a manhole cover.

croomb is what pigeons

murmur to themselves.

phlooph is sitting

suddenly on a cushion.

nyo-nyo is speaking with

your mouth full.

hariiwikkiwworrah is yawning.

paloop is the tap dripping in the bath.

ram tam gee pickagee

is feeling good.

Post-reading
3.	Which two of the words for sounds in the poem do you think work best? Explain.
4.	Think of different explanations for two of the invented sound words.
5.	Decide on two more sounds and invent words to echo them.
6.	“Feeling good” is not a sound like the rest in the list. The speaker is playing with us.But “ram tam gee pickagee” is very expressive. What does it suggest to you about “feeling good”?