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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.
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. Kids can listen to the author read his poem.
For teachers, there are many wonderful extras. Below each poem is a reading level and a linked list of the poetic techniques used the the poem. When you click on the technique, it takes you to an explanation of the poetic technique and other poems by the author that use this technique.
Nesbitt provides a wealth of lessons on how kids can write their own poems. They can learn how to write a funny poem, learn about poetry rhythm, learn a dozen different poetic forms, and many more poetic styles.
Other resources include a simple rhyming dictionary and a poetic terms dictionary.
If you sign up by email, you can enter poetry contests, participate in a poetry forum, get new poems by email, and even keep a poetry journal.
Ken Nesbitt, the author, is a former Children’s Poet Laureate. He’s created a wonderful resource for children’s poetry
Spend some time with writers of children’s poetry at Scholastic’s Writing with Writers: Poetry. Three well-known poets discuss samples of their work, and give kids advice on their own poetry writing.
There is a webcast of Jack Prelutsky, Children’s Poet Laureate, as he amuses us with several of his well-loved poems.
Karla Kushin shares her poetry and offers advice on brainstorming and revising your poetry. Kids in grades K-12 can publish their own poems to the website, and read the poetry of other kids.
Jean Marzollo, the writer of the well-known I Spy riddles, offers advice and tips to kids on creating their own I Spy riddles.
Try the interactive Poetry Idea Engine to create and print a limerick, haiku, cinquain or free verse.
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.
From site: The Favorite Poem Project is dedicated to celebrating, documenting and encouraging poetrys 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.
During the one-year open call for submissions, 18,000 Americans wrote to the project volunteering to share their favorite poems Americans from ages 5 to 97, from every state, of diverse occupations, kinds of education and backgrounds. From those thousands of letters and emails, we’ve culled several enduring collections….
The Favorite Poem Project seeks to improve poetry’s place in American classrooms by encouraging active, engaging poetry lessons that emphasize a direct, vocal connection to poems. The lessons below were developed by teachers as part of their participation in the Favorite Poem Project summer poetry institutes hosted by Boston University.
