35 of Our Favorite 6th Grade Poems

There are so many reasons to include Poetry in your classroom. Here's a list of some great poems to create lessons with and bring to your students. They are fun, engaging and will surely promote reading, speaking, and listening skills.

These short texts will feel much less intimidating than a novel would. Making less of a focus on the actual reading, but rather on comprehension. Students should see reading as an enjoyable activity you can make that happen through poetry!

Take all of these amazing poems into consideration, read them yourself, look up some activities. The good news is most of these already have activities out there.