3rd Grade Reading Poems worksheets

About this worksheet

Poems ask a reader to notice things prose does not usually require: how a poem is divided into stanzas, which words rhyme, and how a single vivid line can create a picture or a feeling without stating it directly. Common Core's RL. 3. 5 asks third graders to use terms such as stanza when they talk about a poem, and RL. 3. 4 asks them to notice how word choice creates meaning. A child who reads smoothly can still miss the rhyme scheme entirely or take an image literally instead of picturing what it suggests.

This worksheet prints one short, original poem and asks ten questions about it: what it is mostly about, how many stanzas and lines it has, which words rhyme, what a vivid line means, the poem's first and last lines, and the feeling it expresses. Read the poem aloud once with your child before starting, since poems reward being heard as well as read.

What your child will learn

• Identify a poem's stanzas and lines
• Find words that rhyme within a poem
• Explain what a vivid image means
• Identify a poem's first and last lines
• Describe the feeling or mood a poem expresses