Grade 5 Poetry Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RF.5.4.B

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In fifth grade students should come to class understanding what poetry basically is and have had some success writing their own poems. They will then start to analyze poetry independently and work to understand the voice and word choices of poets. As students progress they will begin to understand the purpose and use of line breaks in poetry and begin publishing their own work. The goal here is write with purpose to communicate a clear message. The worksheets in this section will have students begin to work with poetry using these fifth grade skills.

Grade 5 Poetry Worksheets To Print:

My Friend - The poem looks at how our friends lift us up. Answer the questions that follow.

Delight Becomes Pictorial - A metaphoric poem for our younger students. Look up the word "pictorial". What does it mean?

The Oak - This really makes you feel how trees are really living breathing things.

The Hungry Mouse - The endless cheese quest for a mouse with an attitude. Why do you think the mouse exaggerates when he tells the others what happened?

Mr. Miller - Reading this aloud makes a huge difference. What happens when Mr. Miller pulls the string on his parachute?

The Cat and the Mouse - We explore the concept of opposites of nature. Which two lines rhyme in each stanza?

First Frost - This reminds me to buy a new hat every year. I always lose hats over the summer.

The River - You read the title, then you read the poem, then you read the title again and finally get it.

A Considerable Speck - What does the speaker in the poem think that the speck is "expressing" with its feet?

A Book - What does it mean that he "ate and drank the precious words"? What is the overall effect of the book on the boy?

Saturdays - Which line in the poem indicates how the speaker feels about doing her chores?

My Sister - What does the boy in the poem like best about his sister? There are a few to choose from.

The Road Not Taken - The timeless thoughts of Frost. Does the speaker think he will ever be able to come back and try the other road?

The Star - Science teachers tell me that this poem is scientifically sound too. What comes out of the woods in the poem?

Fire - When Autumn falls, it's time to fire up the fireplace. Name one sign of autumn the poem mentions.

The Basic Forms of Poetry


Over time, different attempts have been made to define poetry and fix the rules for its writing. However, in the English literature, poetry is simply understood as a form of expression that has no strict rules at all. Such an immense amount of independence for the poets to compose verses in the English language has given birth to a lot of distinct forms of poems.


Here are some of the most commonly known and recognized forms of poetry in the English literature:


Narrative Poems


As the name indicates, a narrative poem is a poem that narrates an event or a story, either real of fictional, in verse form. Such a poem has a proper plot, characters, and usually more than one themes being discussed in it. It can either be very long or short depending on what the poet is describing.


Sonnet


Made famous by William Shakespeare, a sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines and is usually written in iambic pentameter.


Free Verse


These are poems that are not composed under any rules. The author can literally write anything and in any way he or she may like to compose his ideas in. There are no fixed number of lines, meter, or rhyming scheme for such a form of poetry.


Haiku Poems


Haiku poems are classical poems that mostly describe the nature and its beauties. These are written in three-line stanzas with a simple syllable and punctuation style used in the lines.


Epic


Epics are generally very lengthy poems that are meant to describe a fictional adventure of some great knight or hero of the ancient times.


Limericks


A limerick is a very short poem, only consisting of 5 lines and addressing something in a witty style. The first, second, and fifth lines in a limerick are longer and have a rhyming pattern as compared to the shorter two lines that have no rhythm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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