Poetry words: fill in the blanks · Grades 3–5

The word bank and sentences

Directions: Read each sentence. Choose the best word from the word bank and write it on the line.

• Word bank: cross out each word as you use it
• five · stanza · three · haiku · acrostic · speaker · four
• 1 Each group of lines in a poem is called a ____.
• 2 A · is a short poem that began in Japan and often describes nature.
• 3 Limericks are silly poems with · lines.
• 4 The · of a poem is the voice telling it, which may not be the poet.
• 5 A haiku has · lines with five, seven and five syllables.
• 6 In an · poem, the first letters of the lines spell a word down the side.
• 7 In an AABB rhyme scheme, lines one and two rhyme, and lines three and rhyme.
• Your turn · Write a sentence of your own that uses a word from the word bank.