4th Grade Poetry Worksheets

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These poetry worksheets for 4th grade use original poems to show how poems are built and how to write them. On the reading pages, children count the stanzas in a narrative poem about fixing an old rowboat, mark the rhyme scheme of a limerick, find the couplets in a poem about fall leaves, clap the beats of a jump rope chant, and tell how a poem about a lost puppy differs from a play with a cast and stage directions (CCSS RL.4.5). Other reading pages follow a speaker's feelings about being a new student, explain a repeated line in a poem about rain, and retell a story poem about a lost dog (RL.4.2). On the writing pages, children plan and write a diamante, a limerick, rhyming quatrains about snow, a list poem, a five senses poem about the beach and an unrhymed poem about a favorite place, each with a model poem and a rule to check (W.4.3.D). There are 16 original sheets; the 10 reading sheets have an answer key.

Written by Adi Ackerman, Head Teacher