Let’s say you need a
no muss-no fuss type of activity to keep students occupied while you read with
small groups or help various students with their creative writing….then Poetry
Ringo might be your choice.
Start with the worksheet grid I’ve posted below. This particular one is numbered to 28, but you can continue the grid onto the back of the sheet for as many squares as necessary.
Find and read a poem
by these poets! Write the poem’s title
on the line after the poet’s name and then color in the corresponding square on
your RINGO grid.
Happy Reading!!!
1. Judith Viorst
2. Emily Dickinson
3. Gwendolyn Brooks
4. Christina Rossetti
5. Shel Silverstein
6. Joanna Cole
7. Dorothy Aldis
8. Jeff Moss
9. Jack Prelutsky
10. John Ciardi
11. Beatrice Schenk DeRegniers
12. Bobbi Katz
13. Aileen Fisher
14. Langston Hughes
15. Jack Prelutsky
16. Lucille Clifton
17. Marchette Chute
18. Judith Thurman
19. Rachel Field
20. Robert Louis Stevenson
21. Harry Behn
22. Myra Cohn
Livingston
23. Mary O’Neill
24. Harry Behn
25. Adelis Stoutenberg
26. Robert Frost
27. Laura Richards
28. Carl Sandburg
29. Jeff Moss
30. David McCord
31. Bobbi Katz
32. John Ciardi
33. Christina Rossetti
34. Nikki Giovanni
35. Lord Alfred Tennyson
36. Aileen Fisher
37. John Ciardi
38. Valerie Worthy
39. X.J.Kennedy
40. Laura Richards
41. Jeff Moss
42. Vachel Lindsay
43. Charles Malam
44. Charlotte Zolotow
45. Karla Kuskin
46. Judith Viorst
47. Beatrice Schenk De Regniers
48. Gwendolyn Brooks
49. Shel Silverstein
50. Myra Cohn Livingston
51. Mary Ann Hoberman
52. Shel Silverstein
53. William Cole
54. Ravena Bennett
55. Mary Ann Hoberman
56. Eleanor Farjeon
57. Langston Hughes
58. Dorothy Aldis
59. Robert Frost
60. Karla Kuskin
61. E. P Young
62. Vachel Lindsey
63.
Eve Merriam
64.
Jack Prelutsky
Then have students respond to the following prompts to complete an essay:
Now that you have read a ton of poetry…which poets did you enjoy the most? Write about your top three poems. Identify the author, the title and explain why you liked the poem.
