Grade 4 Poetry Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RF.4.4.B

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This is the age where students will begin to listen to poems that are longer in length. At this grade level students are listen to and discussing poetry more than composing their own works. Students are focused on learning the language of poetry and modeling the use of the various forms. The main goal for this age is understand the major structural elements of poetry with the hope of carrying that over into writing their own forms in future grades. These worksheets are great for introducing structural poetry forms.

Grade 4 Poetry Worksheets To Print:

The Crazy, Itching Dog! – This sounds just like my puppy!

Phoebe's Poem – The name of the worksheet is pretty clever.

Walking the Dog – This makes walking the pup vivid to me.

Pure Meter – This is where simple parts of a poem draw emotions out of you.

At Bedtime... – Such a simple poem leads to many questions.

From a Railway Carriage – What is the speaker in the poem doing?

If All the Skies – This is a very traditional poem for the era.

Escape at Bedtime – At first I thought this was a jailbreak poem that read years ago.

When Father Carves a Duck – During Thanksgiving time a lot of teachers assign this one.

To Any Reader – A school yard poem.

Loss and Gain – Find the words in the first line of each stanza that rhyme. Underline them in red.

The Change – See if you can grasp the main idea here.

The Cow – Teachers will now use these sheets to evaluate students.

The Arrow and the Song – This can be used as an assessment for this level.

Take the Stage – As the student reads aloud, teachers will mark the text to indicate miscues.

Techniques for Teaching Elementary Poetry


Poetry is an important element of English. It helps in expressing emotions and feelings in a unique literary manner. Teaching poems to children is important because it builds their confidence. Poems also help children in remembering a lesson or value more vividly.


Here are some techniques for teaching elementary poetry:


Read the Poem Aloud


Elementary poetry is not that tough to understand. It does not have difficult meanings. Elementary poems only consist of rhyming words. One of the most interesting ways to teach elementary poetry to young children is to actually read it aloud to them. They will listen to it with keen interest and attention. You can also sing the poem for the class to make it a fun activity for them.


First, the teacher must read the poem out loud so that the children are clear about pronouncing the words and reading style. After this, the students must be asked to read themselves. Asking each student to read the poem out loud builds a favorable environment for learning and enhances a student's pronunciation skills.


Identify Unfamiliar Words


When you are teaching elementary poetry to young children, make sure that they understand every little bit of detail. Otherwise, they won't be able to develop an interest in poems and poetry. They will find it difficult and boring. After you are done with reading or while you are reading the poem aloud to the children, ask them to notify the words they are unfamiliar with. Unfamiliar words can become a hindrance in their understanding of the poem. You can ask the children to look for meanings of unfamiliar words in the dictionary. You can also prepare a list of unfamiliar or difficult words ahead of time and teach the definitions of those words before starting the poem.


Summarize and Discuss the Poem


Poems are not only about rhyming words and singing muse. Most poems have important meanings and morals hidden in them. Discuss the poem after you are done reading it. Make the children summarize the poem in their words. This would help them in understanding the main idea of the poem.


Discuss and Conclude


The last step is to ask the students for their input about the poem, ask questions like can they relate to it in any way, did they like it or not, what made them like it or dislike it, etc. Try to summarize and conclude the whole discussion and the poem's meaning in one single sentence so that the students are left with no confusion at all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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