1st - 6th Grade Poetry Writing Resources

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Make a Travel Journal

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Make a Travel Journal

Fourth Grade

Reading

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

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Make a Travel Journal

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Make a Travel Journal

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Fourth Grade

Reading

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Journal Prompts For Kids

Workbook

Journal Prompts For Kids

Fourth Grade

Writing

Kids can go on a daily writing adventure with a month's worth of prompts to keep writing skills sharp. Invent an animal, write a recipe, make three wishes, and more!

Workbook

Journal Prompts For Kids

Workbook

Journal Prompts For Kids

Kids can go on a daily writing adventure with a month's worth of prompts to keep writing skills sharp. Invent an animal, write a recipe, make three wishes, and more!

Fourth Grade

Writing

Workbook

Put on a Poetry Party!

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Put on a Poetry Party!

Second Grade

Writing

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

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Put on a Poetry Party!

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Put on a Poetry Party!

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

Help your child learn to navigate narrative poetry, then write their own poem, in this super-fun narrative poetry worksheet.

Help your child learn to navigate narrative poetry, then write their own poem, in this super-fun narrative poetry worksheet.

Third Grade

Writing

Worksheet

Write Parts of Speech Acrostic Poetry!

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Write Parts of Speech Acrostic Poetry!

Second Grade

Writing

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

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Write Parts of Speech Acrostic Poetry!

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Write Parts of Speech Acrostic Poetry!

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Second Grade

Writing

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Write a Gratitude Acrostic Poem

Worksheet

Write a Gratitude Acrostic Poem

Third Grade

Writing

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

Worksheet

Write a Gratitude Acrostic Poem

Worksheet

Write a Gratitude Acrostic Poem

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Second Grade

Writing

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Speak up for the Earth

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Speak up for the Earth

Fifth Grade

Writing

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

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Speak up for the Earth

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Speak up for the Earth

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

Get familiar with some types of poetry in this worksheet that covers different poetry structures.

Get familiar with some types of poetry in this worksheet that covers different poetry structures.

Help your child learn about sensory language as they write a 5-senses poem.

Help your child learn about sensory language as they write a 5-senses poem.

Kindergarten

Writing

Worksheet

Write a Concrete Poem For Mom

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Write a Concrete Poem For Mom

First Grade

Writing

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

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Write a Concrete Poem For Mom

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Write a Concrete Poem For Mom

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

First Grade

Writing

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Valentine Acrostic Poem

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Valentine Acrostic Poem

Third Grade

Writing

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

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Valentine Acrostic Poem

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Valentine Acrostic Poem

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

Third Grade

Writing

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St. Patrick's Day Haiku

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St. Patrick's Day Haiku

Third Grade

Writing

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

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St. Patrick's Day Haiku

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St. Patrick's Day Haiku

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

Use this fun bee-themed worksheet to help your students write a poem all about bees!

Use this fun bee-themed worksheet to help your students write a poem all about bees!

First Grade

Writing

Worksheet

How to Write a Love Song

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How to Write a Love Song

Fourth Grade

Writing

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

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How to Write a Love Song

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How to Write a Love Song

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

Fourth Grade

Writing

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Pick a Peck of Poetry

Workbook

Pick a Peck of Poetry

Third Grade

Reading

What's a metaphor? How do you haiku? Kids will hone reading and writing skills with this book, from a simple syllable counting exercise to inventing rhymes and tangling with the Jabberwocky!

Workbook

Pick a Peck of Poetry

Workbook

Pick a Peck of Poetry

What's a metaphor? How do you haiku? Kids will hone reading and writing skills with this book, from a simple syllable counting exercise to inventing rhymes and tangling with the Jabberwocky!

Third Grade

Reading

Workbook

Write an "I Used To, Now I" Poem

Activity

Write an "I Used To, Now I" Poem

Second Grade

Writing

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

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Write an "I Used To, Now I" Poem

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Write an "I Used To, Now I" Poem

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

The Analyzing a Poem graphic organizer supports students with specific questions to help them understand a poem.

The Analyzing a Poem graphic organizer supports students with specific questions to help them understand a poem.

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

Fifth Grade

Writing

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Journal Writing Task Cards #2

Worksheet

Journal Writing Task Cards #2

Third Grade

Writing

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Worksheet

Journal Writing Task Cards #2

Worksheet

Journal Writing Task Cards #2

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Third Grade

Writing

Worksheet

Make Shape Poem Greeting Cards

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Make Shape Poem Greeting Cards

Fourth Grade

Writing

Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

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Make Shape Poem Greeting Cards

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Make Shape Poem Greeting Cards

Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

Fourth Grade

Writing

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Write a Funny Limerick

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Write a Funny Limerick

Fifth Grade

Writing

Your aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, which are funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

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Write a Funny Limerick

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Write a Funny Limerick

Your aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, which are funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

Fifth Grade

Writing

Activity

Reader's Theatre: Poems of Robert Frost

Worksheet

Reader's Theatre: Poems of Robert Frost

Fourth Grade

Writing

Bring poetry to life by reading it aloud with others! Have young readers select one or more of these poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost. Then take turns reading aloud by swapping single lines, couplets, or stanzas.

Worksheet

Reader's Theatre: Poems of Robert Frost

Worksheet

Reader's Theatre: Poems of Robert Frost

Fourth Grade

Writing

Worksheet

Sensory Poem: Halloween

Activity

Sensory Poem: Halloween

Fourth Grade

Writing

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

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Sensory Poem: Halloween

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Sensory Poem: Halloween

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Third Grade

Reading

Activity

Make Rudolph-Themed Metaphors

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Make Rudolph-Themed Metaphors

Fourth Grade

Writing

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

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Make Rudolph-Themed Metaphors

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Make Rudolph-Themed Metaphors

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Fourth Grade

Writing

Activity

Write Dad a Basketball Message

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Write Dad a Basketball Message

Fifth Grade

Writing

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

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Write Dad a Basketball Message

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Write Dad a Basketball Message

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

Fifth Grade

Writing

Activity

Write a Diamante Poem

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Write a Diamante Poem

Third Grade

Writing

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

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Write a Diamante Poem

Activity

Write a Diamante Poem

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Third Grade

Writing

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