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Poetry Resources
Children's
Poetry Archive
Searchable source for children's poetry and poets.
Short Poems from Marinela Reka.com
Mostly poetry for kids, with a lot of meaning. Poems of all
sorts, like: Short, Scary, Funny, Family, Friendship, Seasons,
Animals, Haiku, Cute,Cinquain, Limericks, Mask,Teen,Love, Heart
Broken, War, Acrostic Poems, Imagination and a lot more
The American Academy
of Poets - for Educators
Many resources, including teacher forums,
pedagogical and critical essays, curriculum tools, lesson
plans, and links.
The Poets
An alphabetical index to 161 companion sites
of poems and poets.
Magnificent Rainbow
Exhibits that "highlight the wonder of kids
playing around with poetic forms."
Teaching
Poetry: Creating Genuine, Meaningful Responses
An ERIC Digest article.
PoetryTeachers.com
Many poetry resources and activities.
Poetry Resources
Rhyming dictionaries, poetry writing tips, links to sites for
poets, and online verse from my
Homework Help Page.
RhymeZone Rhyming Thesaurus
and Dictionary
Use this link to find the perfect rhyming word.
Glossary of Poetic Terms
Definitions, examples, quotations, and writer's guidelines. Check
out the
Related
Links
for other pages with
literary terminology.
Favorite Poem Project
Audio and video of people reading their favorite poems.
The Poetry Resource
Collections of poems, links to sites for specific poets, poetry
through time, poetry around
the world, etc.
Poetry Lesson Plans
Poetry for the Elementary
Classroom
Poetry: Developing a Taste
Pageant of Poetry: A Center Approach
Steps Toward Writing
Poetry
Using Poetry in Teaching
Reading to Special Education Students
Poems That Work!
Understanding and Appreciating
Poetry: Afro-Americans and Their
Poetry
Finding New Voices: Native American Poets
Dramatic Poetry
Discovering Robert
Frost
Edgar Allan Poe: An
Author Unit
Edgar Allan Poe Poetry
Readers Theater
Atmosphere and Symbolism
in "The Raven"
Haiku Lesson Plans
An Introduction to International
Haiku
Creating and Presenting
Haiku with Kid Pix Subjects
Haiku Links
Cinquain Lesson Plans
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The
Poetry Page
Many lesson plans from "Outta
Ray's Head."
Favorite
Poem Project: Lesson Plans
Many lesson plans organized by grade level. Go to the
Favorite Poem
Project's home page.
Teachnology - Poetry
Sixty poetry lesson plans!
General
Poetry Resources
Many lesson plans from
Web English Teacher.
Curriculum
and Lesson Plans
Six units or lesson plans from
The American Academy of Poets.
Teaching Poetry
Five Internet-based activities.
Writing Poetry with Rebus and Rhyme
A
Read/Think/Write
lesson plan for grades K-2.
Core Poetry and More
A 2nd-grade lesson plan from
Core Knowledge.
See also
Poetry in Motion.
A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing
Found Poetry
Another K-2 lesson plan from Read/Write/Think.
A unit for grades 2-4 featuring the works of
Shel Silvertsein
and others.
A 3rd-grade unit on poetry appreciation from
Core Knowledge.
Another 3rd-grade lesson plan from Core Knowledge. See also
Patchwork Poetry.
Dancing Minds and Shooting Smiles: Teaching Personificication
Through Poetry
A
Read/Write/Think
lesson plan for grades 3-5.
Poetry from Prose
Another lesson plan for grades 3-5 from Read/Write/Think.
Poetry Anthology
A lesson plan for grade 3.
Picture Perfect Poetry
A 4th-grade lesson plan from
Core Knowledge.
A unit for grades 4-6 that includes Grace Nichols'
Coconut Kind of Day and other Caribbean poetry.
Lyrical Lessons Online
A 27-lesson unit for the intermediate grades
complete with worksheets and a quiz
Teaching Poetry in New Formats
A unit for the intermediate grades.
A middle-grade unit featuring "The Highwayman" by
Alfred Noyes.
A middle-grade unit using the works of
May Swenson
and others.
What am I? Teaching Poerty through Riddles
An excellent lesson plan for grades 6-8
from
Read/Write Think.
One more 6-8 lesson plan from Read/WriteThink.
Writing Free Verse in the "Voice" of Cesar Chavez
One more middle grade lesson plan from Read/Write/Think .
A unit featuring the poetry of Arna Wendell Bontemps and others.
An 8th-grade unit.
Real Old Rap
An 8th-grade lesson plan from
Core Knowledge. See also
Poetry-The Essence of Life for another 8th-grade lesson plan.
A lesson plan for grades
9-12 designed to help students understand
the characteristics of dramatic poetry.
Writing
Narrative Poetry
Another high school lesson plan.
Arabic
Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal
A high school lesson plan from
Edsitement.
Varying Views of America
A
Read/Write/Think
lesson plan for grades 9-12.
Poetry: Sound and Sense
Another lesson plan for grades 9-12 from Read/Write/Think.
A web-based lesson plan. For links to sites about Robert
Frost,
click here.
An Internet-based unit. Click
here
for a Poe Webliography.
A lesson plan for grades 8-9 that involves learning and then performing
four of Poe's poems.
A lesson plan for grades 6-12.
Teaching
Haiku Poetry
Lesson plans and resources organized by grade
level.
A lesson plan for grades 2-4.
Can You
Haiku?
A high-quality lesson plan for grades 3-5.
Seasonal Haiku: Writing Poems to Celebrate Any Season
A lessson plan for grades 3-5 from Read/Write/Think.
This lesson plan from Education
World
is
for grades 3-5.
The World
of Haiku
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from EDSITEment.
Spring Haiku
A lesson plan for grades 6-12 from Education World.
Lesson
Plan:Writing Haiku
For grades 9-12.
An annotated list.
Cinquains
A 7th-grade lesson plan.
W is for Worm
A lesson plan for preschool and the primary grades.
Composing Cinquain Poems: A Quick-QWriting Activity
A lesson plan for grades 1-2.
Spring
Cinquain
A 3rd-grade lesson plan.
Cinquain Syllables
A lesson plan from Crayola.
Valentine Cinquain Poems
A lesson plan for grades 3-4.
Composing Cinquain Poems with Basic Parts of Speech
A
Read/Write/Think
lesson plan for grades 3-5.
Limerick Lesson Plans
Lear, Limericks, and
Literature
Lessons for grades 5 and up using the works of
Edward Lear.
Edward
Lear, Limericks and Nonsense
A similar lesson plan for grades 3-5 from
Edsitement.
Teachers' Lab - Limerick factory
Students create limericks online.
The Book of Nonsense Volume 2
A lesson plan for grades 2-4.
Limericks
A middle school lesson plan. See also
Middle School Limerick Poem Lesson.
Lilting
Limericks
A lesson plan complete with a scoring guide.
Edward Lear Home Page
All sorts of information.
Edmund J. Sass,
Ed.D.
You can reach me at
esass@csbsju.edu