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! 

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Children practice parts of speech as they learn about this special poetry genre.

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."

What is a limerick? It's a silly poem with five lines, and a fun way learn about rhythm and rhyme.

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

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

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 simple acrostic template for Earth Day makes it easy for kids of all abilities to pen a poem about the planet.

Your budding poet can practice rhythm in this worksheet. They'll read two poems by Robert Louis Stevenson and determine their rhythm.

Does your kid think he knows how to write a haiku? How about draw one? Let him try it out with this haiku worksheet. Inspiration is a blank canvas!

A diamante poem is a diamond shaped poem. Show your students an example of this type of poem and invite them write their own diamantes!

Mix fun with zen in this haiku activity! Students will practice writing about everyday objects in the style of haiku.