Reading Together

Help!

I’m trying hard to learn to read

But what’s a kid to do.

When there’s a NO and a Go and a SO and a HO

And then there’s a word like TO?

Reading BONE and CONE and LONE and TONE

Can almost be kind of fun,

But I get upset when I have to believe

That D-O-N-E spells DONE!

It’s plain to see that a kid like me

Sure needs a helping hand.

No matter how much I really try

I just don’t understand.

I’m trying hard to learn to read.

Somehow that’s what I’ll do.

But for now if you’ll just read to me

Someday I’ll read to you.

Phyllis Halloran
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