Poetry Examples for 5th Grade
Poetry is the gateway to getting even your most word-resistant students to fall in love with words. There is something for everyone when it comes to poetry. Bring on your rule breakers, your structure lovers, and your aspiring rappers! Starting poetry in the elementary classroom should be a no-brainer but it can be tough to find poems for elementary school. We pulled together poems to get every student saying, "Hey, I like that!"
1. Rock 'N' Roll Band by Shel Silverstein
2. On Turning Ten by Billy Collins
3. First Girls in Little League Baseball by J. Patrick Lewis
4. Dreams by Langston Hughes
5. Falling Asleep in Class by Kenn Nesbitt
6. Nine Mice by Jack Prelutsky
7. Alligator Pie by Dennis Lee
8. Dear Basketball by Kobe Bryan
9. The King's Breakfast by A.A. Milne
10. Winter Poem by Nikki Giovanni
11. Brown Girl, Brown Girl by Leslé Honoré
12. Mrs Moon by Robert McGough
13. About the Teeth of Sharks by John Ciardi
14. Rabbit by Mary Ann Hoberman
15. The Rose That Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur
16. Risk by Anais Nin
17. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
18. April Rain Song by Langston Hughes
19. Honey, I Love by Eloise Greenfield
20. Please Mrs Butler by Allan Ahlberg
21. Snail by Langston Hughes
22. Tan by Malathi Michelle Iyengar
23. Laundry Hugger by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
24. The Corn-Stalk Fiddle by Paul Laurence Dunbar
25. Since Hanna Moved Away by Judith Viorst .
26. Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle
27. My Chinatown by Kam Mak
28. Friends by Abbie Farwell Brown
29. The Tyger by William Blake
30. Knoxville, Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni
31. maggie and milly and molly and may by e.e. cummings
32. How to Paint a Donkey by Naomi Shihab Nye
33. The Purple Cow by Gelett Burgess
34. Val by Gwendolyn Brooks
35. The Dream of Shoji by Kimiko Hahn
36. Poor Old Lady by Anonymous
37. After the Winter by Claude McKay
38. Rathers by Mary Hunter Austin
39. Homework! Oh, Homework! by Jack Prelutsky
40. Notes on the Peanut by June Jordan
41. Sick by Shel Silverstein
42. Moon Festival by Marilyn Singer
43. Unexpected Holiday by Alma Flor Ada
44. The Quarrel by Maxine Kumin
45. Jaguar by Francisco X. Alarcón
46. The Parakeets by Alberto Blanco
47. Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
48. The Rainbow by Christina Rossetti
49. Now We Are 6 by A.A. Milne
50. To Catch a Fish by Eloise Greenfield
51. The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt
52. Dino Thought by Jane Yolen
53. Wallet Size by Nikki Grimes
54. The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee by N. Scott Momaday
55. Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
56. The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson
57. Mother Doesn't Want a Dog by Judith Viorst
58. Trees by Joyce Kilmer
59. Autumn by Alexander Posey
60. Invictus by William Ernest Henley
61. Marshlands by Emily Pauline Johnson
62. Amelia's First Ski Run by Nora Marks Dauenhauer
63. I, Too by Langston Hughes
64. The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
65. Coquí by Carmen Bernier-Grand
66. The Dentist and the Crocodile by Roald Dahl
67. A Riddle by Christina Rossetti
68. Life Doesn't Frighten Me by Maya Angelou
69. Cat by Marilyn Singer
70. Recess! Oh Recess! by Darren Sardelli
There are so many other poems you can find in books of poetry. Many are not available on the internet, but poetry books will be much loved in the classroom.
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Plus, our must-share poems for middle school and high school
Source: https://www.weareteachers.com/50-must-share-poems-for-elementary-school/
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