Poetry

Interactive Poetry Tools and Lesson Plans

Tools and Their Uses

• Line Break Explorer  - This  interactive tool allows students to study the line breaks in a poem. They then manipulate the words in two other poems to change the lines breaks.
• Magnetic Poetry Board
   - This  interactive tool allows students to move "magnetic" words to create original poems. They can add to the preselected words by creating their own magnets.
• Student Riddle Interactive
   - This student interactive provides instructions on creating riddles. Students follow guidelines and learn strategies for the riddle writing process.
• Letter Poem Creator
   - Using the Letter Poem Creator, students engage with the medium of letters and experiment with writing them as poems, with attention to why the lines are broken, where they are broken, and how line breaks affect rhythm, sound, meaning, and appearance
• Muse Poetry Generator - Pressing the "create" button will produce a line of poetry for you, which you can then continue, building on the imagery and sensibility of the words generated.
• Poetry Tiles - This applet creates a 'magnetic poetry' board upon which the user may shift around the words
• Magnetic Poetry - Play with Poetry Building Tiles online
• KidZone Poetry Creator - Create your own poem by choosing from the list of words in the database. You may then save your poem to the database permanently
• Haiku Contest - Students can use picture prompts to create Haiku Poetry
• Poetry Forms - Presented by Burlington County ETTC

Lesson Plans for Interactive Tools

• What Makes Poetry? Exploring Line Breaks - This lesson engages children in exploring various poems and hypothesizing about why lines are broken where they are in poetry. Students then experiment with line breaks and how they affect rhythm, sound, meaning, appearance, and can substitute for punctuation in poetry.
• Letter Poems Deliver: Experimenting with Line Breaks in Poetry Writing  - Letter poems make poetry accessible, meaningful, and fun. Letter poems are also an apt medium for exploring a defining characteristic of poetry—line breaks.
• What Makes Poetry? Exploring Line Breaks  - Learning poetry's special characteristics helps students understand, appreciate, and compose poetry
• Playing with Prepositions through Poetry
   - Students manipulate words into an unusual form of poetry.
• Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading and Writing - Teach your students about sentence structure, rhyming words, sight words, vocabulary, and print concepts using a weekly poem. These important skills for reading and writing are demonstrated in a whole-to-parts approach using engaging poems, shared reading, and independent activities.
• Poetry Teachers - Cute and Funny Resources
• Giggle Poetry - Cute and Funny Resources
• Poetry for Children - Fun, easy way to "Mental Images"