Teach Your Students How to Write a Limerick with Ease!

Get ready to unleash the inner poet in your students! There’s no better time to start than now, and no better way to begin than by providing them with easy-to-access resources to help them learn the art of writing poetry, beginning with the whimsical and fun limerick. With the right tools and guidance, your students will be rhyming and rhythmically expressing their thoughts in no time. With a predictable format and a standard syllable pattern for each line, the limerick will quickly become your students’ favorite type of poetry to compose.

Printable Limerick Template for Kids

This resource consists of an instructional sheet providing students with information and details on the format of a limerick, its rhyme scheme, and syllable patterns. The next sheet is a graphic organizer with prompts to help students write each line of their poem. Finally, we’ve included a final draft sheet for students to publish their poems for display.

Download and Print Your Limerick Poem Worksheets

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the PDF or Google Slides version of this resource. 

This resource was created by Samantha Rose, a teacher in Florida and Teach Starter collaborator.