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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
Academy
of American Poets - for Educators (Poets.org)
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.
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
April is National Poetry Month
A "calendar activity" from Read-Write-Think. See also
April Is
Poetry Month! from Education World for more lesson plans and resources.
The Poetry
Archive
Many lesson plans for all grade levels.
The
Poetry Page
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
Robert Frost's Mending Wall: A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
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.
Poetry Out Loud - Lesson Plans and Class Schedule
Several lesson plans. See their other
teaching
resources.
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 Academy of American Poets (Poets.org).
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.
See also
What Makes Poetry? Exploring Line Breaks.
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.
Narrative Poetry
A 6th-grade unit. See also
"Casey
at the Bat" and narrative poems.
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.
Let's Write Poetry
A lesson plan for grades 7-8 from CREATE for Mississipps.
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.
Onomatopoeia — A Poetry Lesson Plan
A lesson using excepts from famous poems.
Arabic
Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal
A high school lesson plan from
Edsitement.
1900 America: Primary Sources and Epic Poetry
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 from the Library of Congress.
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.
Poetry of the Great War" "From Darkness to Light?"
A high school lesson plan from EDSITEment.
The
Poetry of Emily Dickinson
A Teacher's Guide with ten lesson plans from The Bog Read. See also
The
Poetry of Robinson Jeffers,
The
Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and
The
Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe for other teacher's guides from The
Bid Read.
Carl Sandburg's Chicago: Bringing a Great City Alive
A high school lesson plan from EDSITEment. See also
Carl Sandburg Home and Historic Site Curriculum Materials,
Poetry Pairing "Chicago" and
Personification
with "Grass" by Carl Sandburg.
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 from EDSITEment. See also
Teacher's Resources from The Robert Frost Farm,
Robert Frost Prompts the Poet in You,
Discovering Robert
Frost, and The Road Not
Taken.
Edgar Allan Poe: An
Author Unit
An Internet-based unit. Click
here
for a Poe Webliography.
The
Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
A Teacher's Guide with ten lesson plans.
Edgar Allan Poe Poetry
Readers Theater
A lesson plan for grades 8-9 that involves learning and then performing
four of Poe's poems.
Meet Mr. Poe
A lesson plan for grades 9-11.
Haiku Lesson Plans
Teaching
Haiku Poetry
Lesson plans and resources organized by grade
level.
An Introduction to International
Haiku
A lesson plan for grades 2-4. See also
Haiku for You.
Haiku Starter
A lesson plan for grades 2-6 from Read-Write-Think.
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.
Creating and Presenting
Haiku with Kid Pix Subjects
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. See also
Haiku: Teaching
Japanese Poetry Writing.
Haiku
Another lesson plan for grades 6-12.
Haiku Links
An annotated list.
Cinquain Lesson Plans
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.
Cinquain
Another lesson plan for grade 3-5.
Bring Your Lessons to Life with the Cinquain Poetry Form
One more 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. See also
How to Write a Limerick.
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