Poetry Task Cards About Life

When it comes to writing poems, our daily experiences can be great sources of inspiration!

Get your students to express their personal experiences through poetry with Teach Starter’s set of 16 That’s Life! Poetry Prompts. These task cards are designed to encourage young writers to create poems about everyday events, such as trips, birthdays and friendships – experiences that are familiar and meaningful to them. Each card provides a topic, along with a few rhyming words to spark ideas and make poetry writing accessible for all.

Example Prompt: Write a poem about a sleepover. Try using words like night, light or bright.

Some of the topics included in this set of poetry prompts include:

• The Great Hike
• The Move Theater
• Game Time
• The Dance Party
• The Bike Ride
• And many more!

Using These Poetry Task Cards in Your Classroom

These versatile poetry prompts can be used in many ways across the curriculum. Here are a few suggestions from our experienced teacher team:

1. Social-Emotional Learning – Use these prompts in social-emotional learning discussions. Students can write poems about their feelings and experiences of daily life events, helping them express emotions in a healthy way and building empathy as they share with classmates.
2. Life Events Poetry Journal – Encourage students to keep a “Life Events Journal” where they respond to a poetry prompt each week. This can be a fun way for students to document and reflect on moments in their lives, creating a personal collection of poems that grows over time.
3. Oral Presentation and Public Speaking – After writing their poems, students can read them aloud to the class. This is a great way to build confidence in public speaking and allows students to take pride in their creative work by sharing it with their peers.

Download These Poetry Task Cards

This resource can be downloaded as a full-color PDF or editable Google Slides file. Use the Download button above to select your preferred file format.

Print the cards on cardstock to increase the durability of the resource. Place the cards together in a large envelope or ziplock bag for safekeeping.

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

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