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Reading and responding to 'Please Mrs Butler' by Allan Ahlberg

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I can give a personal response to the poem and perform it.

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Allan Ahlberg is one of Britain’s most popular and successful children’s writers and is known for his fun storytelling. ‘Please Mrs Butler’ is a poem about a child asking their teacher for help. ‘Please Mrs Butler’ is written as a conversation between two characters and can be performed in a pair. Performing a poem using expression and gestures will help to express to an audience how a character is feeling.

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