Updated on March 28, 2017
These websites and apps provide lots of free composing tools, forms, poems written for children and teens, and lesson plans. The interactives make it easier and fun for kids to express themselves poetically.
Take a look at our in-depth reviews of the Best Websites for Kids Poems.
Using this interactive, students in grades 3-12 can learn about and write haiku. Haiku is a popular Japanese poem in the form three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, often about nature themes. Use the interactive to brainstorm words.…
There are 13 interactive poetry analysis tools for students in grades 6-12. Many of them assist students in analysis of works by classic English poets. One deals with strategies for reading poetry. And two deal with the themes of family…
This collection of eight engaging poems includes audio read-along, animation and activities for young children. Each poem emphasizes a different vowel sound combination. And the accompanying activities ask kids to identify the sounds in a passage and answer some short…
Find a poem or browse a poem by theme, form or poet. Poetry form examples include ballads, clerihews, couplets, haiku, kenning, limerick, list, monologue, rap, rhyming, and riddle, among many others. There are detailed biographies of the poets, as well…
Kids poems that look at life from a kid’s point of view. Funny, irreverent and based on real-life (mostly) 😉
Verses, old and new, written by former teacher for and about tween-age students and their lives. All poems are rhymed and metered.
No Water River has a video library of delightful children’s poems recited by their authors. LaTulippe’s blog provides background on the authors, as well as activity ideas and questions teachers can use with their students or parents with their children.
In this Webquest, middle school students use multimedia resources to learn poetry terms, elements, and examples. Students use online resources to analyze the information, and to create their own poetry collection, which is called a “Poetry Anthology”.
Create an acrostic poem, backronym or mnemonic. Fast, free and fun.
Use this super simple interactive site to help you write rhyming poems. You start typing your poem. Then click on a word you want a rhyme for while holding down the Use this super simple interactive site to help you…
Outta Ray’s Head has poetry lessons for middle and high school students, using a variety of poetry styles and themes. They range from how to write haiku, imagery and rap, to interpreting a love sonnet.
I invite you to pay a visit to www.poetryfortoughguys.blogspot.com to be transported to a world where the bully gets the wedgie, and the term “tough guy” is redefined. Young boys from 7 to 14 can’t get enough of the irreverent…
Poems, poems, poems for all age groups and on all subjects by Josie Whitehead, a poet who is popular with young and old. There are more than 1400 poems written by the author, and they go into classrooms in hundreds…
Magazine, blogs, book series and website written entirely by teens. An excellent resource for teen poetry writers and artists.
Poetryclass training team of poets offers some poetry lesson plans for students of all ages. From site: The Poetry Society has a long and successful history of education work. We find that working with poetry is not only a creative…