Year 5 Poetry Writing Resources

Bring poetry to life by reading it aloud with others! Have your child select one or more of these poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost. Then take turns reading aloud by swapping single lines, couplets, or stanzas.

In an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line spells out a word or message! Give your child a fun challenge with this acrostic "mother" poem starter.

Help students learn how to recognise the beats in a poem with this worksheet.

Practising poets can refine their sense of metre and rhythm with this worksheet about stressed and unstressed syllables.

Use this haiku worksheet to add a written element to any afternoon outing in nature.

Review parts of speech and sentence structure with a fun and creative writing exercise. Try writing a descriptive scene using no verbs!

Nouns are an important part of every sentence! What would happen if we tried to write a story with no nouns?