4th and 5th Grade Poetry Writing Educational Resources

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

Try a Chinese poetry style called wu-yan-li-shi, which hopeful immigrants wrote while waiting on Angel Island in California to be admitted to the U.S.

This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.

Your young writer can learn about poetry analysis with this worksheet on rhyme schemes, complete with excerpts by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Get in the spooky spirit of Halloween with our vocab-packed copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

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

Children learn about three songs that inspired and gave hope to the people who fled slavery via the Underground Railroad, then answer questions about what they have learned.

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.

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

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

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."

Review parts of speech and sentence structure with a fun and creative writing exercise. Try writing a descriptive scene using no verbs!

Your young poet can review the important concepts of rhyme and rhythm by completing some practice exercises based on this poem.

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.

Nouns are an important part of every sentence! What would happen if we tried to write a story with no nouns?

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

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

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

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

Learn all about how to write a haiku with this quick and easy worksheet on the structure of this timeless poetry type.

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!

Learners will learn about and refer to the rules for writing a limerick as they pen a St. Patrick's Day poem of their own.

When your students read this silly poem, they will find examples of hyperbole. Then, they will make a connection to another language concept: superlatives!

In an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line spells out a word or message! Give your child a fun challenge with this acrostic "mother" poem starter.