Hi Kelly,

Thank you for the question. 

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. 

W. H. Auden

Exposing kids to poetry is a great idea which shows them the beauty of language.

Here are a few choices you may think of.

Poetry collections are mostly not specifically designed for one certain grade, so reading with them and help them understand the poems may be a good idea. 

1. Poetry for Kids Series:

Poetry for Kids: William Shakespeare (Leve Z)

Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman (Level R)

Poetry for Kids: Emily Dickinson (Level Q）

Poetry for Kids: Robert Frost （Level R）

Poetry for Kids: Carl Sandburg （Level T）

2. Anthologies:

Days Like This: A Collection of Small Poems （Level L)

A Child's Anthology of Poetry (Level U)

The Random House Book of Poetry for Children (Level O)

A Child's Garden of Verses (Children's Classic Collections)  （Level N）

A Child's Introduction to Poetry (Level S)

A World Full of Poems (Level R)

Wondrous You: Empowering Poems for Magical Kids (Level R)

Poetry Speaks to Children (Level R)

3. Poems about Sicence

National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry: More than 200 Poems With Photographs That Float, Zoom, and Bloom! (level W)

The Poetry of Science: The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science for Kids (Level T)

Sing a Song of Seasons: A Nature Poem for Each Day of the Year (Level Y)

National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry: 200 Poems with Photographs That Squeak, Soar, and Roar! (Level W)

4. Shel Silverstein's Poetry Collections

A Light in the Attic (Level R)

Falling Up (Level P)

Where the Sidewalk Ends (Level N)

Runny Babbit (Level P)

5. Roald Dahl Poems

Revolting Rhymes (Level R)

6. Musical Poems

Hip Hop Speaks to Children: 50 Inspiring Poems with a Beat （Level P）

7. Jack Prelutsky Poems

The New Kid on the Block (Level P)

8. Other Award Wining authors

Thanhhà Lai: Inside Out and Back Again (Level U)

Sharon Creech: Hate That Cat: A Novel (Level T)

9. Historical Poems

Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice (Level R)

10. Poems about Diversity

They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems (Level X)