After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book and their senses in this poetry-based extension activity! 

Engage students' senses and inspire their creativity with this sensory poem template!

Practice reading and writing words that rhyme in this creative exercise.

Practicing poets can refine their sense of meter and rhythm with this worksheet about stressed and unstressed syllables.

Try your hand at an acrostic fall poem, a popular writing activity for kids.

Help students learn how to recognize the beats in a poem with this worksheet.

If your child likes to rhyme, have him try this fun style by using the format of poet Edward Lear.

This worksheet explains to kids what an acrostic poem is, and then challenges them to write an acrostic poem that describes each word provided.

An acrostic poem is one of the most easy and rewarding ways for younger children to write poetry. Fill in the blanks to spell out "family".

Our limerick worksheet is sure to tickle your kid's funny bone! This limerick exercise teaches them how to write a limerick.

Create some Halloween poetry with this acrostic poem-writing worksheet!

In this worksheet, children read an example of a bio poem for jazz musician Thelonious Monk, then use the prompt to create a bio poem for a person of their choosing.

This poetry worksheet is sure to get your child's creative juices flowing! Students will seek to write their own limerick by filling in blank spaces for nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Then they'll add an illustration to complete their poem!

Find out if you've got a little haiku master on your hands with our haiku worksheet. A simple poetry form, a haiku is perfect for beginning writers.

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

This worksheet is a lovely introduction to cinquains and poetic forms.

Use this haiku worksheet to add a written element to any afternoon outing in nature.

Practice writing sensory poetry using this helpful template that focuses on a place and setting.

Take a stab at haiku poetry with this free-form haiku writing worksheet. All you need is imagination and a pen!