Shel Silverstein’s poetry site incorporates all of the joy of poetry evident in his books. It’s a site designed for children, with activities and lesson parents and teachers can use with children. Children can read and listen to poems and create their own poetry. There are games and puzzles, as well. Be sure to have your speakers on. This is definitely a multi-sensory fun time for kids!
Poetry through the Ages
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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…
- Map a course through the evolution of poetry
- Learn about poetic forms and create your own poetry
- Discover more about poetry from ancient to modern times
Poets.org
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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.
ReadWriteThink: Word Mover and app
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Learning to recast the text they are reading in a different genre helps make students more insightful readers and helps develop creativity in thinking and writing. The Word Mover allows students to pick out the best words, phrases, and lines from a passage to create a found poem.
The word mover interactive app is also available for iPad/iPhone and Android devices.
ReadWriteThink: Theme Poems and app
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A shape poem is a poem that describes an object and is written in the shape of the object. In this online tool, elementary students can select shapes from four different themes: Nature, School, Sports, and Celebrations. Within these themes, 19 different shapes are included.
By selecting a shape, students are learning how to focus their writing on a particular topic. 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 shape poems, cut and color them, and display them in the classroom or at home.
The theme/shape interactive app is also available for iPad/iPhone and Android devices.
