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Fun and games

• Interactive online poetry
  • Create your own psuedo-haiku poetry
    • Acrostic poems - create your own - ReadWriteThink
    • Diamante poems
    • Limerick Factory - create your own
      • Limericks - lists 83 examples
    • Shape poems - nature, sports, etc.
  • Instant Poetry Forms - examples of many different poetry types to fill in to create your own - scroll down list on left (ETTCenter, Burlington VT) EXCELLENT
  • Magnetic Poetry unscramble to find the poem - Java - takes time to load
  • Magnetic Poetry Board - ReadWriteThink
  • Poetry Engine - Scholastic-make own haiku, limerick, free verse, cinquain - FLASH
  • PoetryFun with fill in the blank poems (PoetryTeachers.com) - scroll down for choices
  • Poetry Splatter - fill in the blanks to make own poems - great with Smartboard
• Giggle Poetry - including how to write a limerick
• Poetry4Kids.com
  • Poetry fun and games
• Poetry through the ages - history and forms of

Favorite poets

--GottaBook blog, by Gregory K,

includes Anaconda, by Laura Purdy Salas 2010 and Dinosaur Dung, by Elaine Magliaro 2011

• Children's Poet Laureate -- Children's Garden of Poetry
  • April Rain Song, by Langston Hughes - poem video
  • Daffodils, by Wadsworth- poem video read by Dave Matthews
  • Hope is the thing with feathers, by Emily Dickinson - poem video
  • J. Patrick Lewis - current National Children's Poet Laureate
  • Mariposa, by Frederico Garcia Lorca - animated poem video
  • MaryAnn Hoberman - 2nd National Children's Poet Laureate --
    • Llama no pajamas video reading poetry with pictures
    • All kinds of families video reading poetry with pictures
    • All my shoes come in twos
    • Edward Lear - Nonsense book - reading poetry with pictures
    • Laughing Time
    • Mary Ann Hoberman and video interview from Reading Rockets
• Emily Dickinson "I'm nobody, who are you?" and fill in the blanks to create your own - way at bottom - click on GO
• Jack Prelutsky - 1st National Children's Poet Laureat
  • writing poetry with Jack Prelutsky - Scholastic
• Janet Wong hear her read poems
• Langston Hughes - poems in right column
• Maya Angelou
  • African American Poetry - National Poetry Foundation
    • Dream in Color - Elementary curriculum ideas with poems PDF
    • Dream in Color Middle School curriculum ideas PDF
• Poetry4Kids Kenn Nesbit
• Poetry Farm - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
• Robert Frost
• Shel Silverstein - animated online poetry
  • Shel Silverstein - Reading Rockets - with new animated online poems

   

	Book Spine Poetry Ellette and Stella
Carter J and Will D	Rossi and Julia	Henry C
Marcus J	Ellette and Stella	Clare B
Anna, Elizabeth and Grace

Glossaries

• Glossary of Poetic Terms
• RhymeZone - find rhymes for words

Searchable indexes of poetry

• American Verse Project
• Bartleby click on Verse ;listing works of several poets
• Find a poem from Poets.org from the Academy of American Poets
• Poetry Foundation
• PoemHunter.com

Classroom ideas and resources

• Animated Poetry - 34 poems animated video - Poetry everywhere - PBS
  • Text Flows- Poets.org -- animated text of classic poems - no sound
• BrainPop - movie on poetry
• BrainPopJr. movie on poems
• Invent your own Poetry (Education World)
• Lyrical Lessons online - GREAT site for personification, alliteration, puns and more - poetry unit lessons
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) award for excellence in Poetry for Children with PDFs on poet and their poetry
  • J. Patrick Lewis
  • Mary Ann Hoberman
• National Poetry Month Scholastic
  • Poetry Printables - Scholastic - fun poetry activities by grade level
  • Poetry Writing with Jack Prelutsky, Karla Kuskin, Jean Marzollo
• Poetry - Teacher's corner-links and lesson plans
• Poetry month lesson plans Teacher Vision
• Poetry Center - Library of Congress
• Poetry Everywhere - listen to poets read their work, (online video) or some classics, like Frost - PBS.org
  • Poetry Everywhere collection (grades 7-12) TeachersDomain
• Poetry Page - Outta Ray's Head list of lessons, including Poetry Poker
• Poetry Teacher.com Children's poetry by Meadowbrook Press. Lots of funny poems, poetry contests and more! Ideas for educators on teaching poetry in fun and interesting ways
• Poetry: Teacher's Guide - lesson plans "how to write" Smartbarod activities
• Smartboard ideas
  • Poetry - Smart Exchange ideas

------ Homepage Poetry Hunt