Poetry

From site:  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…

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…

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… Map a course through the…

From site:  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…

From site:  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,…

From site:  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…

From site:  Riddles are an excellent vehicle for introducing students to poetry and poetry writing. The Riddle Interactive encourages students to use language in such a way as to present a common thing as unfamiliar, asking their readers/listeners to guess…

From site:  Letter poems are a particularly apt medium for exploring a defining characteristic of poetry—line breaks. As students work to transform narrative-style letters (shown at left) into poetic format, they are encouraged to think carefully about where to end…

From site:  In this online tool, students can learn about and write diamante poems, which are diamond-shaped poems that use nouns, adjectives, and gerunds to describe either one central topic or two opposing topics (for example, night/day or winter/spring). Examples…

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…