This Poetry worksheet, ‘Acid Rain’, features a poem about air and water pollution. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about drawing a conclusion, reasoning, detail, figurative language, validity, author’s purpose, vocabulary, and making a judgment. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Poetry worksheet, ‘Backyard Friends’, features a poem about the squirrels, rabbits, raccoons, and other small animals that visit a garden. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about conclusion, figurative language, emotion, validity, predicting outcome, and detail. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This graphic organiser, ‘Exploring Descriptive Writing’ supports the teaching of reading and writing by giving students a template for identifying or adding descriptive details.
This graphic organiser, ‘Exploring Imagery’ supports the teaching of reading and writing by giving students a template for identifying meanings and connections with words in a text.
This Poetry worksheet, ‘Horse Sense’, features a humorous poem about how to handle a horse. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about figurative language, reasoning, making an inference, conclusion, detail, and theme. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Poetry worksheet, ‘Joshua’s Poems’, features a poem about a boy who writes poems about places he visits, rather than taking photographs or collecting souvenirs. The worksheet encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about figurative language, cause and effect, comparison/contrast, and detail. Answer sheet provided with …More
This Poetry worksheet, ‘Ricky’, features a poem a boy’s career ambitions changing as he grows up. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about reasoning, detail, figurative language, validity, and character. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Poetry worksheet, ‘Success’, features a poem about fame, money, and the nature of true achievement. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about making an inference, figurative language, cause and effect, vocabulary, character, and the main idea. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Poetry worksheet, ‘The Distance a Ball Will Travel’, features a poem about a father losing his sight. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about detail, words in context, cause and effect, figurative language, comparison/contrast, reasoning, drawing a conclusion, character, and theme. Answer sheet provided …More
This Poetry worksheet, ‘The Ghost Ship’, features a poem about the Mary Celeste, a ship that was mysteriously abandoned by its passengers and crew in 1872. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about the main idea, reasoning, vocabulary, figurative language, detail, drawing a conclusion, and …More
This Poetry worksheet, ‘The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere’, features Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem about the start of the American Revolution. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about comparison/contrast, vocabulary, sequence, detail, figurative language, vocabulary, author’s purpose, categorising, and literary devices. Answer sheet provided …More
This Poetry worksheet, ‘The Most Dangerous Beast’, features a light-hearted poem about diseases spread by animals, such as Mad Cow Disease, West Nile Disease, Monkeypox, and Lyme Disease. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about interpretive language, author’s purpose, drawing a conclusion, and making a …More
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