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Poetry Resources
Children's Poetry Archive
Searchable source for children's poetry and poets.

Short Poems from Marinela Reka.com

The American Academy of Poets - for Educators
Many resources, including teacher forums, pedagogical and critical essays, curriculum tools, lesson plans, and links.

The Poets
An alphabetical index to 161 companion sites of poems and poets.

Magnificent Rainbow
Exhibits that "highlight the wonder of kids playing around with poetic forms."

Teaching Poetry: Creating Genuine, Meaningful Responses
An ERIC Digest article.

PoetryTeachers.com
Many poetry resources and activities.

Giggle Poetry
Tips for teaching poerty to children.

Teaching Poetry
A forum for teachers offerd by the Tasmanian government!

Poetry Resources
Rhyming dictionaries, poetry writing tips, links to sites for poets, and online verse from my Homework Help Page.  

RhymeZone Rhyming Thesaurus and Dictionary
Use this link to find the perfect rhyming word.

Glossary of Poetic Terms
Definitions, examples, quotations, and writer's guidelines. Check out the Related Links for other pages with literary terminology.

Favorite Poem Project
Audio and video of people reading their favorite poems.

The Poetry Resource
Collections of poems, links to sites for specific poets, poetry through time, poetry around the world, etc.

Poetry Lesson Plans
The Poetry Page

Poetry for the Elementary Classroom
A unit for grades 2-4 featuring the works of Shel Silvertsein and others.

Poetry: Developing a Taste
A 3rd-grade unit on poetry appreciation from Core Knowledge.  

An Irritating Creature
A lesson plan for grade 3 or 4 designed to encourage students to think about and evaluate the meaning of a poem.

Dancing Minds and Shooting Smiles: Teaching Personificication Through Poetry
A Read/Write/Think lesson plan for grades 3-5.

Poetry from Prose
Another lesson plan for grades 3-5 from Read/Write/Think.

Choral Poetry
A lesson plan for grades 3-6.

Steps Toward Writing Poetry
A unit for grades 4-6 that includes Grace Nichols' Coconut Kind of Day and other Caribbean poetry.

Lyrical Lessons Online
A 27-lesson unit for the intermediate grades complete with worksheets and a quiz

Teaching Poetry in New Formats
A unit for the intermediate grades.

Using Poetry in Teaching Reading to Special Education Students
A middle-grade unit featuring "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes.  

Poems That Work!
A middle-grade unit using the works of May Swenson and others.

Step Up to the Plate Poetry
A lesson plan integrating baseball, African American history, and poetry.

What am I? Teaching Poerty through Riddles
An excellent lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Read/Write Think.

Understanding and Appreciating Poetry: Afro-Americans and Their Poetry
A unit featuring the poetry of Arna Wendell Bontemps and others. .

Finding New Voices: Native American Poets
An 8th-grade unit.

Dramatic Poetry
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 designed to help students understand the characteristics of dramatic poetry.

Art in Poetry: Teaching the Imagists
A high school lesson plan from the Educator's Reference Desk.

Writing Narrative Poetry
Another high school lesson plan from the same source as above.

Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal
A high school lesson plan from Edsitement.

Varying Views of America
A Read/Write/Think lesson plan for grades 9-12.

Poetry: Sound and Sense
Another lesson plan for grades 9-12 from Read/Write/Think.

Discovering Robert Frost
A web-based lesson plan. For links to sites about Robert Frost, click here.  

Edgar Allan Poe: An Author Unit
An Internet-based unit. Click here for a Poe Webliography.

Edgar Allan Poe Poetry Readers Theater
A lesson plan for grades 8-9 that involves learning and then performing four of Poe's poems.

Atmosphere and Symbolism in "The Raven"
A lesson plan for grades 6-12.

Haiku Lesson Plans
Monarch Haiku
A lesson plan for grades 2-3 from The Educators Reference Desk.

Teaching Haiku Poetry
Lesson plans and resources organized by grade level.

An Introduction to International Haiku
A lesson plan for grades 2-4.

Can You Haiku?
A high-quality lesson plan for grades 3-5.

Seasonal Haiku: Writing Poems to Celebrate Any Season
A lessson plan for grades 3-5 from Read/Write/Think.

Creating and Presenting Haiku with Kid Pix
This lesson plan from the Educator's Reference Desk is for grades 3-4.

Haiku
A lesson plan for grades 3 and up in which students learn the syllable structure and mood of haiku poems by comparing the serenity of the autumn months with the peaceful rhythms of haiku poetry.

The World of Haiku
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from EDSITEment.

Spring Haiku
A lesson plan for grades 6-12 from Education World.

Lesson Plan:Writing Haiku
For grades 9-12.

Haiku Links
An annotated list.

Cinquain Lesson Plans
How to Write a Cinquain
From Can Teach.

Cinquains
A 7th-grade lesson plan.

W is for Worm
A lesson plan for preschool and the primary grades.

Composing Cinquain Poems: A Quick-QWriting Activity
A lesson plan for grades 1-2.

Valentine Cinquain Poems
A lesson plan for grades 3-4.

Composing Cinquain Poems with Basic Parts of Speech
A Read/Write/Think lesson plan for grades 3-5.

Limerick Lesson Plans
Limerick Lesson
For grades 3-6.

Lear, Limericks, and Literature
Lessons for grades 5 and up using the works of Edward Lear.  

Edward Lear, Limericks and Nonsense
A similar lesson plan for grades 3-5 from Edsitement.

Teachers' Lab - Limerick factory
Students create limericks online.   

Limericks
A middle school lesson plan.

Limerick Lesson Plan
For 8th grade.

Edward Lear Home Page
All sorts of information.