Resources

Atwell, Nancie. //Naming the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons.// Portsmouth, NH: //first//hand, 2006.
 * __ Poetry Resources for Teachers and Students __**

Holbrook, Sara. //Practical Poetry: A Nonstandard Approach to Meeting Content-Area Standards//. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2005.

Fleischman, Paul. //Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices//. New York: HarperCollins, 1988.

Janeczko, Paul. //A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms//. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2005.

// Poetry Speaks Expanded. // Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2007. (print + 3 audio CDs)

// Poetry Speaks to Children //. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2005. (print + CD)

// Prentice Hall Literature: Grade 6 //, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.

Thompson, Michael Clay. //Poetry, Plato, and the Problem of Truth.// Unionville, NY: Royal Fireworks Press, 2006.

Robert Pinsky, the 39th Poet Laureate of the United States, founded the Favorite Poem Project shortly after being appointed to the post in 1997. This site offers a list of America’s favorite poems in video form as well as in written form. []

Poetry Out Loud: Poems (written, video, audio), information for teachers and students []

The Poetry Foundation: They have it all. []

Outta Ray’s Head- The Poetry Page – lots of lesson plans []

Poetry teaching ideas []

Poetry Central: Teaching Boys with Poetry []

Web English Teacher: Poetry Collections, Poetic Forms & Styles, and Poets []

EDSITEment: Poetry lesson plans and activities for all grades. []

The Poetry Archive: Lesson Plans, activities and resources for all ages. []

Poet’s Corner: Features a user-friendly library with thousands of works by hundreds of authors. []

Poetry 180: Founded by US Poet Laureate Billy Collins (2001-2003), students can hear and/or read a poem on each of the 180 days of the school year. Geared for high-schoolers. []

Poetry Express: 15 Poems You Can Write Now. []

Poets.org: Comprehensive site for students and teachers. []

Bedford St. Martin’s VirtuaLit Interactive Poetry Tutorial: Defines and gives examples of 14 elements of poetry. []

Bob’s Byway: A huge collection of poetic terms with definitions and examples. []

Write Express Online Rhyming Dictionary []

Scholastic: Study poetry by taking part in step-by-step workshops with select poets. (Grades 1-8) []

Education Technology Training Center of Burlington, NJ: Instant Poetry Forms []

Bright Hub: Poetry vocabulary and examples, analysis, and lesson plans []

Suite101.com: Poetry Lesson Plans. This site is a little hard to navigate- no good filtering mechanism, but look for “Related Articles” and”References”links on the left. []

Poetry Explication Guidelines a []

Illuminate Poetry PowerPoint Planning Guide []

Famous Poets and Poems.com: Poems and information about poets. []

Bartleby.com: Internet publisher of literature, reference, and verse. []

PoemHunter.com: Poets, poems, lyrics, quotations, etc. []

PBS: Readings by contemporary poets [] []

Library of Congress []

Representative Poetry Online: Full text of more than 2500 classic and contemporary poems. (University of Toronto). []

National Poetry Month - Poem a Day: Daily poetry focus + resources. []

Rock & Roll Library: Music with a Message []

Rock & Rock Hall of Fame : Summer Teacher Institute Lesson Plans []