Spider
![Spider. Spider.](/var/tki-eesoll/storage/images/instructional-series/junior-journal/junior-journal-42-level-2-2011/spider/419467-1-eng-NZ/Spider_resource_image.jpg)
by Alan Bagnall
This humorous, easy-to-read poem describes a child’s dilemma upon finding a spider in the bath. It’s likely to provoke a strong response from students as they make connections to their own experiences of spiders, but it also requires them to infer in order to fully understand the child’s problem.