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January 24, 2009 Hits: 106
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From site: The Favorite Poem Project is dedicated to celebrating, documenting and encouraging poetry’s role in Americans’ lives. Robert Pinsky, the 39th Poet Laureate of the United States, founded the Favorite Poem Project shortly after the Library of Congress appointed him to the post in 1997.
June 11, 2008 Hits: 117
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Giggle Poetry has hundreds of poems to read and rate. You can pick a poem by theme or ask to be surprised. Some of the themes include family, school, potty, bedtime, birthday, yucky, sports, animal, and poems about me. You can also learn more about creating your own poems, having fun with poetry, using poetry to perform plays, and you can ask questions of the poet. There are resources for fiction and poetry teachers.
October 24, 2008 Hits: 78
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Poets choose words with precisely the right meaning, including words that may have multiple meanings. It is the listener's or reader's interpretation that gives the poem its meaning for any particular time it is read. It will be important for your child to know what a haiku is. As the activity indicates, a haiku is three-line poem where the first and third lines have five syllables and the middle line has seven. Haiku is a very popular poetry form and examples can be found at Haiku-dedicated sites all over the Web.
January 28, 2009 Hits: 594
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Instant Poetry Forms is an award-winning website designed to help kids create dozens of different kinds of poems. There are forms for poems about birthdays, animals, emotions, rhymes and lymericks, to name a few.
January 28, 2009 Hits: 57
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KidzPage offers a healthy dose of poetry and verse for kids. Take a look at Critter ABCs. In the KidzSing Garden of Song, pick a verse for a sing along from the large collection of nursery rhymes. Read a selection from Homegrown Verse, poems submitted by kids at schools all over the world. Publication to the site ended in 2006, but it remains popular
March 26, 2009 Hits: 63
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From site: The largest collection of interactive poetry including poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Lear and many more... LearingReviews.com note: Free registration is required to download the interactive poetry.
January 27, 2009 Hits: 56
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From site: Rhyming dictionary and verse editor for songwriters used by over one-hundred thousand people from over 100 countries. Created by American author Bryant McGill, Adam Markowitz, Jim Karol, Chantelle Paige, Bobbi Billard and Jeff Kozlowski. This essential reference now ships with VersePerfect, a powerful cutting-edge editor for songwriters, poets, rappers, MySpace musicians, and creative writers. This editor provides a rich, dynamic, and interactive workflow lending to and enhanced creative process. Recently mentioned on the front-page of the Wall Street Journal and in the New York Times, the McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme is the world's most extensive rhyming reference ever created in the history of the English language.
February 03, 2009 Hits: 52
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From site: Explore the power of language, look at the world with a fresh sense of wonder, and build reading and writing skills. These video segments, drawn from the PBS Poetry Everywhere series and produced in partnership with the Poetry Foundation, capture some of the voices of poetry, past and present.
October 16, 2008 Hits: 313
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Find rhyming words for poems, with links to their meanings. You can also look for homophones, alliterative words and phrases and words with similar meanings. A very versatile poetry dictionary.
August 12, 2008 Hits: 163
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From site: Writing poems has never been so much fun! Are you ready to get messy and SPLAT your own poem? Using the Poetry Splatter is easy. Just choose a poem title from the list. When you see your poem, you will have to fill in the blanks with words that are splattered onto the screen. Have some fun creating silly poems!
August 29, 2008 Hits: 63
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From site: Since the Sumerian poet Enheduanna carved her odes to the goddess Inanna in cuneiform tablets more than 4,500 years ago, civilizations have expressed their most beautiful, tragic, triumphant, and perceptive thoughts through poetry...
January 28, 2009 Hits: 77
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Poetry4Kids.com is a poetry playground. Kids read and rate the poems on this website. You'll see funny poems, the newest poems and the most popular poems. There are lessons on writing funny poems, including clerihews and exaggeration poems. And there's a simple rhyming dictionary.
June 11, 2008 Hits: 72
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From site: Learn how to inspire a love of poetry in your students and teach kids how to write different types of poems.
August 14, 2008 Hits: 47
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Launched in 1996, Poets.org is the award-winning website of the Academy of American Poets. Visitors to Poets.org will find thousands of poems as well as hundreds of poet biographies, essays, interviews, and poetry recordings—with new material being added constantly. Also available are resources such as the National Poetry Map, a national events calendar, and poetry lesson plans for teachers. Poets.org receives a million visitors each month, making it the most popular site about poetry on the web. Poets.org also allows visitors to create their own anthologies of content from our site. Log in and create a Notebook, then fill it with text and audio to make your own poetry library on the web. Visitors are invited to stay in touch by signing up for Poets.org Update, a free, monthly e-mail newsletter that will inform you of new content on the site, as well as provide poetry news and information. We also offer a free Poem-A-Day email during April, National Poetry Month.
January 22, 2008 Hits: 1426
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From site: In this online tool, students can learn about and write acrostic poems. An acrostic poem uses the letters in a word to begin each line of the poem. All lines of the poem relate to or describe the main topic word. In addition, as part of the online tool, students are prompted to brainstorm, write, and revise their poems, thus reinforcing elements of the writing process. Students can also print their finished acrostic poems.
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