Welcome to Shel Silverstein My Puppy Plays Piano - Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry4kids.com Print This Poem A Funny Pet Poem for Kids Rate this poem My puppy plays piano. It’s the strangest thing to see. He started out on chopsticks, then he learned to play some Bach. He also taught my kitten how so they could play duets, and then they taught guitar and drums to all my other pets. They formed a band and practiced hard and traveled all around, and instantly got famous for their catchy “Pet Rock” sound. They made a smash hit record and it wasn’t very long before my pets were millionaires because they wrote this song. --Kenn Nesbitt Copyright © 2011. Reading Level: Grade 4
My Family’s Fond of Gadgets - Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry4kids.com Print This Poem A Funny Technology Poem for Kids Rate this poem My family’s fond of gadgets and new technology. My mother likes her radio. My sister likes to dance around the house with headphones on. The baby has a smartphone and a touchscreen-tablet too. We chat with instant messaging. The power went out recently. --Kenn Nesbitt Copyright © 2014. Reading Level: Grade 2
My Dog Lives On the Sofa - Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry4kids.com Print This Poem A Funny Dog Poem for Kids Rate this poem From the book The Biggest Burp Ever My dog lives on the sofa. --Kenn Nesbitt Copyright © 2012. Reading Level: Grade 2 From the Book The Biggest Burp Ever My Mother Does My Homework - Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry4kids.com Print This Poem A Funny School Poem for Kids Rate this poem My mother does my homework. We sit down at the dinner table every single night. And now and then, she’ll tell me I should go and take my bath. You’d think that I’d be overjoyed to never have to work. I ask if I can do it, but she shrugs off my requests. --Kenn Nesbitt Copyright © 2015. Reading Level: Grade 2 About This Poem As a parent of two children, I get to help my children with their homework quite often. I don't think parents do this intentionally, but sometimes they do go from helping out to doing a problem for their child as a way of showing them how it's done. But what would happen if the parent liked it so much, that they just answered all of a student's homework problems?
K-W-L Creator Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Unit Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction Questions about weather clear up when students use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class. Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Creating Question and Answer Books through Guided Research This series of activities is designed to teach research strategies. Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Critical Perspectives: Reading and Writing About Slavery Students critically explore the moral issue of slavery through reading fiction and nonfiction children's literature about the Underground Railroad, and they extend their understanding through creative writing projects. Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Recurring Lesson Using Word Storms to Explore Vocabulary and Encourage Critical Thinking Students learn that dogs are more than just pets in this lesson, which teaches them to use research and vocabulary-acquisition strategies to learn and write about working dogs.
Diamante Poems In this online tool, students can learn about and write diamante poems, which are diamond-shaped poems that use nouns, adjectives, and gerunds to describe either one central topic or two opposing topics (for example, night/day or winter/spring). Examples of both kinds of diamante poems can be viewed online or printed out. Because diamante poems follow a specific format that uses nouns on the first and last lines, adjectives on the second and fourth lines, and gerunds in the third and fifth lines, this tool has numerous word-study applications. The tool provides definitions of the different parts of speech students use in composing the poems, reinforcing the connection between word study and writing. It also includes prompts to write and revise poems, thus reinforcing elements of the writing process. For additional ideas on how to use this tool out of school, see Diamante Poems in the Parent & Afterschool Resources section. Grades 7 – 10 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Theme Poems
Theme Poems In this online tool, elementary students can write poems based on shapes from five different categories: Nature, School, Sports, Celebrations, and Shapes. Within these categories, 32 different shapes are included. By selecting a shape, students are learning how to focus their writing on a particular topic or theme. In addition, as part of the online tool, students are prompted to brainstorm, write, and revise their poems, thus reinforcing elements of the writing process. Students can save their draft poems to revise later. See the 5-minute video tutorial Saving Work With the Student Interactives for more information on have to save, e-mail, and open a file in any of the ReadWriteThink Student Interactives. For ideas of how to use this tool outside the classroom, see Theme Poems in the Parent & Afterschool Resources section. Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Dynamite Diamante Poetry Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing Poetry Acrostic Poems Diamante Poems Theme Poems
Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry for Kids - Santa Brought a Bar of Soap - A Funny Christmas Poem for Kids A Funny Christmas Poem for Kids Copyright © 2014 Kenn Nesbitt. All Rights Reserved. About this Poem A couple of years ago, when my son became a teenager, his younger sister gave him a stick of "Old Spice" deodorant for his birthday. I thought it would be funny to turn this idea into a Christmas poem where Santa delivers a bunch of gifts, all designed to make the recipient smell better. What do you think? Comments Use This Poem Would you like to use this poem in your classroom? Reading Level of this Poem Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry for Kids - Transportation Vacation - A Funny Vacation Poem for Kids A Funny Vacation Poem for Kids Copyright © 2015 Kenn Nesbitt. All Rights Reserved. About this Poem Have you ever gone on a road trip and felt like you spent a lot more time in the car than you did actually enjoying your vacation? So I thought, wouldn't it be funny if you went on a long vacation, but all you did was get on one mode of transportation after another until you eventually ended up back at home? This poem is somewhat similar to another poem I wrote for my book The Aliens Have Landed at Our School! Comments Add a comment. Use This Poem Would you like to use this poem in your classroom? Reading Level of this Poem
Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry for Kids - I'm Not Picky - A Funny Food Poem for Kids I'm not picky. I'm not rude. Why, I'll eat any kind of food. Except for foods called "beets" or "greens." Or "beef." Or "beans." I won't eat foods called "fish fillets." Or anything called "baked" or "stewed." No, I'm not picky. --Kenn Nesbitt Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry for Kids - I Tried to Take a Selfie - A Funny Technology Poem for Kids A Funny Technology Poem for Kids Copyright © 2015 Kenn Nesbitt. All Rights Reserved. About this Poem It used to be that, if someone didn't like you, they might say that your face could "crack a mirror." Of course, that could never actually happen, but I thought it might be fun to update this idea a little bit. We still have mirrors, of course, but these days everyone with a mobile phone takes "selfies" to show where they are, who they are with, or what cool thing they are doing. But what would happen if your face could crack a mirror, and you tried to take a selfie? If you like poems about mirrors or technology, here are a few more I hope you enjoy: Comments Use This Poem Would you like to use this poem in your classroom? Reading Level of this Poem