Ocean Soup Tide-Pool Poems

Ocean soup

tide-pool poems​

Multiple Choice

What is tide-pool soup?

• a tide pool with lots of tasty creatures for a predator

• a soup with crabs and urchins

• a snack you can buy at the store

• a tide pool with an angry crab

Multiple Choice

Reread the following sentences:

Be careful! When you take a bite, this soup might bite you back.

Who is taking a bite in this poem?

• a bird

• a crab

• an urchin

• a person

Multiple Choice

Reread the following sentences:

Be careful! When you take a bite, this soup might bite you back.

Who is "biting back" in this poem?

• a bird

• a crab or urchin

• a person

• someone eating a crab or urchin

Multiple Choice

How many stanzas are in this poem?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Multiple Choice

Which words in the poem rhyme?

• good, snack

• snack, bite

• snack, back

• poke, soup

Multiple Choice

Why does the narrator say "It's rough out there - no joke!"?

• the water in tide-pools can be rough and dangerous

• crabs and urchins are delicious

• be careful if you try to eat something from a tide-pool

• crabs and urchins tell great jokes

Multiple Choice

What is a gastropod?

• a tongue

• a shell

• a sea slug

• the food sea slugs eat

Multiple Choice

Who is the narrator?

Narrator: The person telling the story.

• someone looking into a tide-pool

• a snail with a pesky shell

• someone not in the story

• a sea slug named Doris

Multiple Choice

What is the narrator's point of view about herself?

• she wishes she had a shell

• she does not believe she is a gastropod

• she thinks she eats too much

• she thinks she's beautiful

Multiple Choice

Which is a synonym for the word gorgeous?

• ridiculous

• plain

• horrible

• beautiful

Multiple Choice

Which words in the poem rhyme?

• gastropod, odd

• scrape, slug

• body, belle

• sea, slug

Multiple Choice

How many stanzas are in the poem?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is from the 3rd stanza?

• "Don't you think I'm gorgeous?"

• "A slug must watch her shape."

• "Hello, my name is Doris."

• "I'm really rather lucky that I have no pesky shell."

Multiple Choice

Who is the narrator of the poem?

Narrator: The person telling the story.

• a porcupine

• a sea urchin

• a crab

• a sea slug

Multiple Choice

What is the main idea of the poem?

• a sea urchin hates his spines

• a sea urchin loves his spines

• a crab thinks his claws are better than the spines on a sea urchin

• sea urchins are better than porcupines

Multiple Choice

Why does the narrator compare himself to a porcupine?

• porcupines have arms and feet

• the narrator is friends with a porcupine

• porcupines also have spines

• porcupines are very clean animals

Multiple Choice

How many stanzas are in the poem?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4