About This Lesson
Inject some laugh-out-loud humor into your reading and language arts lessons! This free, downloadable resource features a complete 2-page package: the fully illustrated poem "An Alien from Outer Space" by award-winning children's author Paul Kaplan, paired with a print-and-go creative writing handout titled "The Intergalactic Perspective!"
This resource is excellent for:
- Point of View & Perspective: An easy, engaging text to introduce how a narrator's viewpoint shapes a description.
- Descriptive Vocabulary & Sensory Details: Teaches students to focus heavily on shapes, textures, physical attributes, and functions to describe objects dynamically.
- Reluctant Readers/Writers: Short, fast-paced rhyming verse paired with wacky illustrations that keep students engaged.
Included in this 2-page download:
- The full-text poem and original printable illustration layout.
- The Intergalactic Perspective Worksheet: A structured writing prompt layout where students step into the shoes of a confused alien explorer to describe everyday human objects (like a toothbrush, a fork, or a television) using sensory details without naming the item!
If your students love this poem, you can find more free sample poem PDFs (like "Eddie Grows His Eggplants") on the author's site at paulkaplanbooks.com, and the full collection of 130+ poems on Amazon.
