Turn Off the TV! By Brue Lansky

Bruce Lansky, born in New York in 1941, is one of North America's most popular poets, authors, and editors. His most popular children's poetry books include Peter Peter Pizza Eater: And Other Silly Rhymes, If Kids Ruled the School, Rolling in the Aisles, A Bad Case of the Giggles, and Mary had a Little Jam. Lansky's children's fictions title titled Girls to the Rescue and Newfangled Fairy Tales are sold all around the world.

My father gets quite mad at me;
my mother gets upset−
when they catch me watching
our new television set.

my father yells, 'Turn that thing off!'
Mom says, 'It's time to study.'
I'd rather watch my favorite TV show
with my best buddy.

I sneak down after homework
and turn thee set on low.
But when she sees me watching it,
my mother yells out, 'No!'

Dad says, 'If you don't turn it off,
I'll hang it from a tree!'
I rather doubt he'll do it,
'cause he watches more than me.

He watches sports all weekend,
and weekday evenings too,
while munching chips and pretzels −
the room looks like a zoo.

So if he ever got the nerve
to hang it from a tree,
he'd spend a lot of time up there−
watching it with me.

−Bruce Lansky

1.
Write T for true and F for false sentences.
1. The poet's mother likes it when she sees her son watching TV.
2. The poet's father gets angry when he finds the poet watching TV.
3. The poet's father munches on pretzels and chips.
4. The poet thinks his father will not hang the TV from a tree.
5. The poet's mother wishes that the poet plays instead of watching TV.
6. The poet's sneaks dowwn after his homework to watch TV.
2.
When do the poet's parent's parents get upset with him?
3.
How does the poet's father behave on weekends and weekday evenings?
4.
How does the poet describe the room when his father watches TV?
5.
What will probably happen if the TV is hung from a tree?
6.
My father yells, 'Turn that thing off!'
1. What thing does the poet's father ask him to turn off and why?
2. What does the poet's mother tell him to do?
3. What does the poet prefer to do instead?

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Turn Off the TV!

Brue Lansky

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