Second Grade Poems

Poems in the archive are organized within the following groups:

High Interest

Things to Do If You Are a Subway, Bobbi Katz

Riding on the Train, Eloise Greenfield

Lessie, Eloise Greenfield

Imagery

Rain Sound, Lillian Morrison

The Toaster, William Jay Smith

Solution, Leland B. Jacobs

Skyscrapers, Rachel Lyman Field

The Crocus, Walter Crane

The Wind, James Reeves

The Night Is a Big Black Cat, G. Orr Clark

Zebra, Judith Thurman

The Storm, Dorothy Aldis

Fog, Carl Sandberg

Tent, Deborah Chandra

Repetition

April Rain Song, Langston Hughes

River Winding, Charlotte Zolotow

Sing a Song of People, Lois Lenski

Rhyme

Trees, Sara Coleridge

Building a Skyscraper, James S. Tippett

Smells, Kathryn Worth

How to Get There, Bonnie Nims

Dust of Snow, Robert Frost

Symbolism

White Cat Winter, Tony Johnston

Rhythm

Spring, Karla Kuskin

Seashell, James Berry

All We Need, Steve Turner

Sensory details

Tiger, Valerie Worth