Kids’ Magnetic Poetry Kit
Get inspired to create a poem with these magnetic tiles of random words. Don’t see a word that inspires? Click for More Words! Or check out one of the suggested themes, such as Poet, Nature, or Geek. Save your poem…
Poetry
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.
Shocked Poetry
Use interactive magnetic tile with a background theme to inspire your poetry. You can request additional nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, little words and all new words that suit your theme. The current themes are Love, Gothic, Dogs, 8Ball, Ransom Note,…
Poetry Foundation app
The Poetry Foundation has a large selection of videos of poetry and interviews with well-known authors, including the Children’s Poet Laureate. Among their other resources is a Poetry Tool, where you can browse through a selection of poems by age…
Making Connections Through Poetry
From site: The historical record reveals factual evidence, but poetry can lend meaning and emotional dimension to the telling of history. In this activity, students analyze primary source documents from the Library of Congress, then share their understanding through the…
Word Mosaic
Create an electronic shape poem. Choose a shape or initials, color, font, then add text. The Word Mosaic will generate your tailored shape, which you can then email, post to a website, share on a social network, or save to…
Wizards and Pigs Poetry Pickle
Find your way through the poetry maze by finding phrases that rhyme, or have similar rhythm or alliteration. Each time you identify one correctly, you gather a key to help you out of the maze.
Shapebook Patterns
From site: Use shape book patterns to write stories, poems, and reports. Students or adult volunteers can cut out shapes to make shape books. Use staples, ribbon, or string to bind pages together. Use cut-out shapes to write notes, lists,…
ReadWriteThink: Line Break Explorer
From site: Learning poetry’s special characteristics can help students understand, appreciate, and compose poetry. One defining characteristic of poetry is the use of line breaks to create rhythm and rhyme, suggest meaning, and produce a particular appearance. The Line Break…
Shmoop Poetry
From site: Shmoop wants to make you a better lover (of literature, history, poetry and writing). See many sides to the argument. Find your writing groove. Understand how lit and history are relevant today. We want to show your brain…
Literactive e-Poetry
From site: The largest collection of interactive poetry including poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Lear and many more… Literactive was devised and developed by a professional team of educators and technical developers. The program is designed…
Poetry Everywhere Collection
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…
Poetry4Kids
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…
Writing Poetry with Writers
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…
McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme with VersePerfect
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…
Favorite Poem Project
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…