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Here are a few of my all-time favorite web links for Kids and for Teachers that I love surfing to when I have a nanosecond or six. At most of these sites you can have fun with poetry--reading it, writing it, learning more about it, meeting some famous poets, and learning how they write.
You can even write to some of them. For me, the more I learn about poetry, as a writer and a teacher, the more magical I find it to be!
So dive in, but don’t forget to come back and see me again when you’re done in the pool and are drying off.
Gigglepoetry
www.gigglepoetry.com
This is a wacky and fun site from Bruce Lansky, the
Poetry Teachers
www.poetryteachers.com
Meadowbrook Press has some really good stuff for teachers (including some poetry lesson plans) too at this related web site.
Poetry4Kids
www.poetry4kids.com
Kenn Nesbitt is a wonderfully talented poet from Washington state who has assembled a truly awesome poetry site for kids and teachers, with some super-stupendous poetry links and activities. You can find anything about poetry here including writing resources, news and games. Check out this site both for Kenn
The Poetry Zone!
www.poetryzone.co.uk
Wow! What an amazingly cool poetry site this is. Don
Robert Pottle Poetry
www.lolpoetry.com
This great poetry-for-kids site by Maine poet Robert Pottle just gets better and better. It has some very funny Robert Pottle poems, and you can hear him read them aloud, and vote for your favorites. Check it out!
Poetry Writing with Jack Prelutsky
teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/jack_home.htm
As far as I
Poetry Writing with Karla Kuskin
teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/karla_home.htm
Like Prelutsky
The Children's Literacy Foundation
www.clifonline.org
This is a spectacular organization based in Waterbury, VT, with whom I do bunches of poetry programs in small rural VT schools each year.
Here's how their web site defines their mission:
"The Children's Literacy Foundation (CLiF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to nurturing a love of reading and writing among children throughout New Hampshire and Vermont. In particular, CLiF's programs target children in rural communities, and children who are at high risk of growing up functionally illiterate."
Wow! And what a great job they do. Check them out.
ThePoetryTeacher.com
www.thepoetryteacher.com
Poet and amazing teacher Steffani Gilligan has developed this cool site that is filled with lots of teacher-friendly strategies for using poetry in your classroom. As frosting on the cake, she also includes poems--some of her own and some from teachers and kids. Check it out!
Andrea Shavick
www.shavick.com
Andrea is one of the top poets for kids in England. Some of her poems are featured in The Poetry Zone site. At her own web page, you can read some of her hysterical poems--including some from her most recent collection with the scrumptious title,
Kristine O
www.kristinegeorge.com
This cool web site from children
J. Patrick Lewis
www.jpatricklewis.com
I consider J. Patrick Lewis to be the most prolific and versatile children
Rebecca Kai Dotlich
www.embracingthechild.org/Bookspecialdotlich.htm
This is an interview with Rebecca Kai Dotlich, one of my favorite children
World-Class-Poetry
www.world-class-poetry.com
This interesting new site maintained by poet Allen Taylor offers an amazing amount of information about poetry. It is mostly aimed at adults who are interested in writing poetry and learning all sorts of interesting tips and information about the genre.
You can also get involved in sharing your voice and opinions about poetry in the blog that Allen Taylor maintains in conjunction with his site at worldclasspoetryblog.com
Kalli Dakos
www.kallidakos.com
Learn about the popular children
Potato Hill Poetry
www.potatohill.com
A very cool site to learn more about poetry (for kids and teachers), and a place to get your poems published. The winners get money! Hey, this site
ImagineSongs
www.imaginesongs.com
Maryland poet, songwriter, artist Joe Thompson
Linda Knaus
www.cpinternet.com/~snorrig/lindag/index2.htm
Linda Knaus' poems are winners. You'll probably recognize some of them from a bunch of poetry anthologies for kids from Meadowbrook Press, including "Miles of Smiles" and "A Bad Case of the Giggles." Linda has co-written a lot of poems with the amazing Kenn Nesbitt. Check some of them out at her web site with the lonnnnnnng address.
BarkingSpidersPoetry
www.barkingspiderspoetry.com
This site might win the strangest name award. New Hampshire children
Steven Herrick
www.acay.com.au/~sherrick/
This great poetry-for-kids site by Maine poet Robert Pottle just gets better and better. It has some very funny Robert Pottle poems, and you can hear him read them aloud, and vote for your favorites. Check it out!
Eric Ode
www.ericode.com
Eric Ode is a very funny, very talented poet and performer of poems and songs. His site has an interesting coloring book feature. If you live on the West Coast especially, you can invite Eric to your school or celebration and be totally entertained.
FizzyFunnyFuzzy
www.fizzyfunnyfuzzy.com
This one wins the
Shel Silverstein
falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/silverstein.htm
Focused on another of my favorite children
Steve Swinburne
www.steveswinburne.com
Steve is an amazing children
Peter Lourie
www.peterlourie.com
As you probably know, Peter Lourie is one of the top writers for kids around. Mostly he has written fascinating non-fiction accounts of his canoe trips down most of the major rivers and waterways of the world. His web site can give you a feeling for some of the thrills he has discovered and written about, including some cool audio and video clips.
Smart Writers
www.smartwriters.com/index.2ts?page=youngwriters
This is a great site for older children, as well as teachers. It has links and information about writing and getting your poems published, and into contests. Tons of information.
Paul Janeczko
falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/janeczko.htmfalcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/janeczko.htm
Paul Janeczko is one of the top children
ProTeacher Poetry
www.proteacher.com/070034.shtml
This site (just a small part of the bigger ProTeacher site) is filled with teacher-tested ideas for doing poetry with kids. You
ALA/Great Sites For Kids
www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/default.cfm
The American Library Association has maybe the most comprehensive site for finding anything about anything to do with libraries and books. You can find author information, good book lists, and teacher resources.
That's it for now. I'll add more poetry web sites as I find them.
If you find a cool poetry web site that I should know about and put on this page, please e-mail me.
I can't wait to hear from you!
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