City Night

Read the poem aloud once for enjoyment, then have students read it again on their own before the questions. Ask them to underline the line that gives each answer, since many questions ask them to copy a line. The 3rd and 4th grade sheets run three pages, so they can be split over two days. Check answers with the key, then talk about the questions that have more than one good answer.

Six poetry comprehension worksheets from 2nd to 4th grade, each built around an original ClassWeekly poem, and every one has an answer key. In 2nd grade, students read The Puddle and Bedtime Moon and answer questions about rhyme, feelings, describing words and stanzas. In 3rd grade, they read The Old Oak Tree and find its stanzas, a word's meaning and its ABAB rhyme scheme, and compare a poem and a story about the same lost kite. In 4th grade, they read City Night and The Last Day of Summer and work with similes, personification, mood, the speaker and theme.

Yes, both. We made it for 4th 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.

The speaker is the voice telling the poem. It is not always the poet: in The Last Day of Summer, the speaker is a child thinking about going back to school.

A poem is written in lines and stanzas and often rhymes. A story is written in sentences and paragraphs and usually gives more details, such as the character's name. The Lost Kite sheet tells the same event both ways so students can compare them.

2nd, 3rd and 4th grade, with ten sheets for each grade. Each sheet's description names the grade it was written for, so you can choose a level, or move a child up or down a grade when a sheet feels too easy or too hard.

Five: acrostic poems, haiku, rhyming couplets, cinquains and poetry comprehension. Each type has two sheets per grade, usually one to read or practice the form and one to plan and write a poem. The comprehension sheets use original ClassWeekly poems.

A cinquain is a five-line poem. In the word form used in 2nd and 3rd grade, line 1 is a noun, line 2 has two adjectives, line 3 has three -ing verbs, line 4 is a four-word feeling, and line 5 renames line 1. The 4th grade sheets add the syllable form, with 2, 4, 6, 8 and 2 syllables in its lines.

Clap once for each beat as you say a word: car-rot is two claps, so it has two syllables. A haiku has three lines with 5, 7 and 5 syllables. The haiku sheets start with clapping picture words, then counting whole lines, then writing a haiku with one dot for each syllable.

18 of the 30 sheets do: every sheet with a right answer, such as counting syllables, finding rhymes or answering questions about a poem. The poem-writing sheets are open-ended, so there is nothing to mark right or wrong.