Year 5 Poetry Writing Resources

Reader's Theatre: Poems of Robert Frost

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.

Year 5

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Worksheet

Poetry Themes

Poetry Themes

Encourage your students to translate their understanding of theme to poetry. In this lesson, students will evaluate the theme of poems by sketching pictures and citing text evidence.

Year 5

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Lesson plan

Journal Prompts For Kids

Workbook

Journal Prompts For Kids

Kids can go on a daily writing adventure with a month's worth of prompts to keep writing skills sharp. Invent an animal, write a recipe, make three wishes, and more!

Year 5

Reading & writing

Workbook

Jazzy Bio Poems

Jazzy Bio Poems

Integrate reading, writing, and social studies in this lesson about famous jazz musicians! This lesson would fit perfectly in a unit about biographies or Black History Month.

Year 5

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Rhyme Schemes

Rhyme Schemes

Your young writer can learn about poetry analysis with this worksheet on rhyme schemes, complete with excerpts by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Year 6

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Acrostic Poem: "Mother"

Read With Rhythm and Rhyme

Acrostic Poem: "Mother"

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.

Year 5

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Worksheet

Read With Rhythm and Rhyme

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

Year 5

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Worksheet

Halloween Diamante Poems

Halloween Diamante Poems

Show your Halloween spirit by creating funny, creepy or trick-or-treating themed Diamante poems. Following the poem template, students will review parts of speech while creating festive masterpieces to share with the class.

Year 5

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State Memories

State Memories

In this lesson, your students will practise writing about places important to them through poetry. By the time they are done, students will have become better writers and taken a walk down memory lane!

Year 5

Reading & writing

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Poetry Rhythm

Poetry Rhythm

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

Year 5

Reading & writing

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Haiku Poetry

Haiku Poetry

Budding writers can find their inner zen and build creative writing skills by practising some haiku poetry.

Year 5

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Haiku How-To

Haiku How-To

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

Year 5

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Winter Writing: No Verbs

Winter Writing: No Verbs

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

Year 5

Reading & writing

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Silly Haiku

Silly Haiku

Have some fun with haiku! These haiku poem prompts mix pop culture with zen creativity.

Year 5

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Worksheet

Haiku for Kids

Haiku for Kids

Mix a fun with zen in this haiku activity! Students will practise writing about everyday objects in the style of haiku.

Year 5

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Worksheet

Winter Writing: No Nouns

Winter Writing: No Nouns

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

Year 5

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Skeltonic Verse

Skeltonic Verse

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

Year 5

Reading & writing

Activity

Back to School Poem

Back to School Poem

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

Year 5

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Activity

Couplet Poem

Couplet Poem

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

Year 5

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Activity

Tanka Poem

Tanka Poem

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Year 5

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Activity

Rhymes With Orange

Rhymes With Orange

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

Year 5

Reading & writing

Activity

Pantoum Poem

Pantoum Poem

Practise rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

Year 5

Reading & writing

Activity

Pressed Flower Bookmarks

Make Shape Poem Greeting Cards

Pressed Flower Bookmarks

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to her neighbourhood.

Year 5

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Activity