reading level: Grade 3

Poems suitable for reading by 8-9 year olds.

Hyper Nate
A Feast for a Frog
Out to the Ball Game by Kenn Nesbitt
Out to the Ball Game
Don't Ever Bite Your Sister by Kenn Nesbitt
Don’t Ever Bite Your Sister
Candy Love
A Sad and Lonely Cyclops by Kenn Nesbitt
A Sad and Lonely Cyclops
My Brother Just Eats Candy
Something Under My Bed
The Dragons Are Dozing
My Smart Family by Kenn Nesbitt
My Smart Family
How to Make People Like You by Kenn Nesbitt
How to Make People Like You
Horror Movie Marathon by Kenn Nesbitt
Horror Movie Marathon
My Mom Likes Playing DnD by Kenn Nesbitt
My Mom Likes Playing DnD
Our Teacher’s Not a Zombie
Mother's Day Disaster by Kenn Nesbitt
Mother’s Day Disaster
My Robot Does My Homework
Photographer icon representing the poem "Picture Day" by Kenn Nesbitt
Picture Day
Class Gas
I Left Our Rhino in the Rain
The Tale of the Sun and the Moon
Speak When This Way Talk Do I
Helping the Teacher by Kenn Nesbitt
Helping the Teacher
I Bought Our Cat a Jetpack
I Never Want to Go to Bed

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