This site offers the text and audio of the poem "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear. Great for students to practice reading poetry aloud at an appropriate rate and with expression.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students are learning to identify sensory words in their reading, specifically in poetry. Students will gain a perspective on how authors use sensory words to portray their ideas. They...

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Mother Hubbard's Melodies: A Book for Nurseries by Wm. L. Allison (1892), a collection of illustrated poems.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A riddle poem by an anonymous poet. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by Christina G. Rossetti about making pancakes. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is the poem "Singing Time" by Rose Fyleman followed by a set of reading comprehension questions using picture cues.

In this lesson, students will communicate their emotions through drama, art, and poetry. Mouse Paint, by Ellen Stohl Walsh, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, by Mary O'Neill, and Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" will be used during this engaging...

In this lesson students will listen to poetry or rhyming books and recognize rhyming words.

[Free Registration/Login Required] ReadWorks provides texts for pre-fluent and fluent readers. This resource is a short poem about joyful mornings.

Find information about dogs and dog sledding with this interactive site.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Using Poetry with Young Writers: This flipchart is a poetry unit for the Early Childhood classroom that reviews the 5K year. Students are introduced to writing poetry, both from the heart and through...

This lesson plan uses the mentor text by Wendy Cheyette Lewison entitled Raindrop, Plop! This lesson, which has a focus on word choice, engages students in brainstorming descriptive words and phrases about raindrops. At the end of the...

Read and listen to this illustrated children's poem about what could happen if I could touch the sky.

The illustrated poem "Who Has Seen the Wind?" by Christina Georgina Rosetti tells about how we know the wind is there even if we can't see the wind itself.

An online storybook based on Robert Louis Stevenson's poem, My Shadow. The reading level is at about Grade 2.

Listen and read along with the illustrated poem "My Hiding Place" by Natasha Josefowitz, about a little girl who makes a hiding place with a blanket where she be anything she wants to be.

You'll find Bible coloring pages, crafts, lesson plans, poems, songs, games, recipes, and bulletin board ideas at this fabulous site! Although most of these activities are designed for K-3 students, they could easily be adapted for use...

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Chatterbox Junior by R. Worthington (1883), a book of illustrated poems, children's stories, birds, games, and historical information. Includes both fiction and...

A digital book of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson is displayed on this site.

Engage young learners in science with this poem and simple experiment from The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science for Kids by Pomelo Books.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this close reading lesson, the students will analyze the poem "It Fell in the City" by Eve Merriam. They will read the poem, identify words or phrases that show feelings or appeal to the senses,...

Explore history, culture, adventures, spies, secret codes, and mysteries through this collection literary activities and resources. Includes poems, clip art, and ideas for crafts.

An online book entitled Trees are Trees: A Collection of Poems and Letters by kindergarten students at the College School in St. Louis, Missouri. The book contains original poems and illustrations about nature which provide exemplary...

Front cover of the book Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman.