In Flanders Fields Poem

Print the page and read the directions with your child: Read the poem aloud. Then talk about what it means to you. Afterward, talk about what they wrote or drew.

The full text of In Flanders Fields by John McCrae, set beside a field of red poppies. A note under the poem says that McCrae, a Canadian doctor, wrote it in 1915, during World War I, and that the poem helped make the red poppy a symbol of remembrance. The directions on the page read: Read the poem aloud. Then talk about what it means to you.

Yes, both. We made it for 5th Grade poetry, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with poetry comprehension. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Imagery is language that helps you see, hear, smell, taste or feel something. On the forest poem sheet, children sort details by sense and tell how the forest changes.

A ballad is a poem that tells a story, usually in four line stanzas called quatrains with a steady rhyme. The lighthouse ballad asks children to follow the story, name the rhyme scheme and count the quatrains.

Ask what the poet wants readers to understand about life, then find the line that shows it best. The poem about a kind neighbor has children state the theme and pick that line (RL.5.2).

The nine original 5th grade poetry comprehension sheets do. In Flanders Fields is a read-aloud and discussion page, so it has no key.

5th graders describe how a speaker's point of view shapes a poem (RL.5.6), explain figurative language (RL.5.4), find a poem's theme (RL.5.2), and tell how stanzas fit together to give a poem its structure (RL.5.5). They also write poems with concrete words and sense details (W.5.3.D).

A tanka is a five line poem with 5, 7, 5, 7 and 7 syllables, like a haiku with two longer lines added. The tanka sheet gives a bank of nature words with their syllable counts and a box to check for each syllable.

It is a poem read by two readers. Each reader has a column, and both read the middle lines together. The sheet shows a model about the sun and the moon, then children plan and write their own for a cat and a dog.

The 9 original poetry comprehension sheets do, and In Flanders Fields is a read-aloud and discussion page without a key. The 5 poetry writing sheets are open, so there is no single answer. Children check their poem against the rule printed on the page.