Poetry Prompts, Grades 1-3
Ideas for teaching poetry to primary children include: how to listen to poetry and recite poetry using choral reading skills: exercises that include the word list for the development of early poetry writing skills; lessons for the development of listening and ear training skills using 2 and 3 rhyming words: and worksheets that progress to solving rhyming riddles. Your students will learn to write poetry through 15+ worksheets that progress from practice in writing rhyming words, rhyming pairs and rhyming couplets to students writing their own 2 line poems. A further 30+ worksheets and activities will extend students' poetry writing skills in the following poetry forms: 2 word poems, acrostic, limerick, haiku, and cinquain.

Grade Level: 1, 2, 3