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Fill in the Blank: "Tattoo" by Ted Kooser

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This printable fill-in-the-blank worksheet features the poem "Tattoo" by Ted Kooser. Students use a word bank of 13 words—including bruise, vanity, lingered, and soft—to complete the full text. Works well for vocabulary in context, poetry analysis, or as a reading-comprehension activity in middle or high school literature classes.

Subject:: English / Language Arts
Topic:: Poetry
Grade Level:: 8th – 11th Grades
Updated October 2025

Word Bank

blue
bruise
chilly
dagger
lingered
ornery
reckon
shuddering
soft
stallion
vanity
Dilemna
Crest

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