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Coral Reef Teacher’s Guide Life on the Coral Reef

SAMPLE POETRY
By Students from Sea View School, California

HAIKU: CINQUAIN:
Coral reefs are neat Coral
Attaching, swaying, living Big grand
Endangered species.
Flowing growing playing
— Ryan Dominguez Bright living greeting feeling
Age 11
Invertebrates.

— Andrea Staley
The clownfish is bright He Age 11
swims in anemone He
hunts in poison.
Coral
— Andrea Staley So hard
Age 11
Swishing washing singing
Lovely atoll reef home
One coral two and Ten cor-
Limestone.
als twenty corals More and
— Kyle Dinsmoor
more and more. Age 10
— Maria Hardesty
Age 11

DIAMANTE:
Sharks Coral
Some big, some small Hard soft

Chewing, killing, swimming Growing dying living
Gills, scaly skin, sharp teeth, dark eyes, Fish oceans seaweed sharks
Listening, eating, fighting Multiplying growing breaking
Ancient, silent Hard soft
Sharks. Coral.

— Ryan Dominguez — Maria Hardesty
Age 11 Age 11

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