In honor or today,Poem in Your Pocket Day, I have collected a pocketful of online poetry resources you can use.
1. NaPoWriMo or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. Although designed for an older audience, there are some daily prompts that can be adapted for younger writers.
2. Scholastic has some fun resources to use with younger students.
3. Poets.org (The Academy of American Poets) has a page for educators. Activities are suitable for students of all ages.
4. Poetry Out Loud has a downlodable teachers guide and other resources.
5. The BBC also has some great resources.
6. The Poetry Foundation also has tons of resources for teachers.
7. Teachervision has slideshows, printables, activities that connect poetry across the curriculum…..
8. The Poetry Archive has a wealth of information, lesson plans and ideas.
9. The Favorite Poem Project is dedicated to celebrating, documenting and encouraging poetry’s role in Americans’ lives. It has resources for all levels.
10. Read Write Think has lesson plans for k-12 teachers.
11. Reading Rockets has videos & lesson ideas suitable for elementary grades.
12. The National Writing Project offers an impressive array of resources to help teachers and students celebrate National Poetry Month, an annual 30-day event that celebrates and promotes the achievement of American poets.
13. You’d expect the NAtional Council of Teachers of English to have some good resources. You can select information based on
14. The NYC Department of Education has lesson and unit plans you can use.
15.Eductopia provides some online and interactive poetry resources.
16. Education World editors have gathered poetry resources from our archive of lesson plans, activities, projects, articles and Resources.
17. You can learn more about Verselandia on their blog.
If you have some favorite online resources, please share them in the comment section below. I will add them to my list.
Here is the booklist from the OASL Regional conference April 26th.
Poems to Learn by Heart
Leave your Sleep: A Collection of Classic Children’s Poetry
Firefly July
The Crossver by Kwame Alexander
We Go Together by Calef Brown
Your Skeleton is Showing by Kurt Cyrus
The Lightning Dreamer by Margarita Engle
Shiver Me Timbers – Pirate Poems by Douglas Florian
A Dazzling Display of Dogs by Betsy Franco
Dear Hot Dog by Mordicai Gerstein
I, Too, an America by Langston Hughes
Requiem by Paul B. Janeczko
Poems I Wrote When No One Was Loking by Alan Kurtz
The President’s Stuck in the Bathtub by Susan Katz
Against Butterflies by Ann Lauinger
When Thunder Comes by J. Patrick Lewis
World Rat Day by J. Patrick Lewis
Cat Talk by patricia MacLachlan
Dizzy in Your Eyes by Paat Mora
Hi, Koo! by Jon Muth
How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson
Stardines Swin High Across the Sky by Jack Prelutsky
Bookspeak by Laura Purdie Salas
My Brother’s Book by Maurice Sendak
Swirl by Swirl by Joyce Sidman
What the Heart Knows by Joyce Sidman
Follow Follow by Marilyn Singer
Everyone Out Here Knows by William Stafford
Digger Dozer Dumper by Hope Vestergaard
Literally Disturbed by Ben H. Winters
The Watch that Ends the Night by Alan Wolf
Pug and Other Animal poems by Valerie Worth
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