4th Grade Poems: Catalog, Snippets, And Resources

Poetry can build a strong foundation for a variety of reading and writing skills. In particular, Poetry in fourth grade builds on reading, speaking, and listening skills. Bringing an array of presentations of poems into the classroom is extremely important. As students listen orally to a poem they will gain the skills and knowledge of hearing words and putting them together into thoughts and emotions.

Fluency is built through repeated reading of the rhythm and rhyme of each poem. There is a poem out there for each student to relate to. We’ve put together a list of 28 of our student’s most beloved poems!

1. A Symphony of Trees By: Charles Ghigna

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2. The Broken-Legg’d Man By: John Mackey Shaw

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3. Please Don’t Prank Your Parents By: Kenn Nesbitt

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4. Long Trip By: Langston Hughes

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5. A Book is Like By: Kathy Leeuwenburg

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6. The Sure-Footed Show Finder By: Andrea Perry 

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7. I Dreamed that I Was Flying By: Kenn Nesbitt

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8. Being Brave At Night By: Edgar Guest

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9. Snowball By: Shel Silverstein

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10. My Cat Knows Karate By: Kenn Nesbitt

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11. Camping By: Steven Herrick

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12. This Morning is Our History Test By: Kenn Nesbitt

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13. Wynken Blynken and Nod By: Eugene Field

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14. The Invisible Beast By: Jack Prelutsky

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15. I’d Like to Meet an Alien By: Kenn Nesbitt

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16. All But Blind By: Walter De la Mare

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17. The Teacher Ate My Homework By: Kenn Nesbitt

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18. My Hamster Has a Skateboard By: Kenn Nesbitt

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19. Walk Lightly By: Patrick Lewis

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20. When I Grow Up By: William Wise

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21. Somehow By: Unknown 

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22. That Explains It By: Kenn Nesbitt

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23. Dream Variations By: Langston Hughes

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24. The Carolina Wren By: Laura Donelly 

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25. The Aliens Have Landed By: Kenn Nesbitt 

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26. Nobody Touch My Tarantula Sandwich By: Kenn Nesbitt

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27. The Shut-Eye Train By: Eugene Field

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28. The Terrible Thing About Cindy By: Barbara Vance

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Conclusion

These Poems will bring some fun into your literacy classroom. Using Poems has so many benefits on a child’s reading fluency, comprehension, listening, and speaking skills. These poems all provide a little something special for each student reading. There is bound to be more than one poem in this list for your most challenging readers and writers.

Embrace your students’ social and emotional learning this year by integrating a variety of poems into your classroom. Let students take the reigns by writing their own poems or working with others to uncover the themes and main ideas of these poems.