Post Updated for 2010: Instead of writing up an entire new Resources for National Poetry Month post for 2010, I've edited my 2009 post. I eliminated all the links that no longer work and added links to all the poetry book reviews that I've done in the past year. I hope you find the following poetry resources helpful. Happy Poetry Month!!!
ESPECIALLY FOR KIDS: SCHOLASTIC’S WRITING WITH WRITERS
Poetry Writing with Writers (Main Page)
Poetry Writing with Jack Prelutsky (Grades 1-4)
Writing I Spy Riddles with Jean Marzollo (Grades 2-5)
Poetry Writing with Karla Kuskin (Grades 4-8)
Poetry Idea Machine
POETRY RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS AND HOMESCHOOLERS
Celebrate Poetry…all year long!: Find some great poetry ideas for teachers from award-winning poet Kristine O’Connell George.
Favorite Poem Project’s Poetry Lesson Plans and Projects: Find ideas for poetry activities developed by teachers who participated in the Summer Poetry Institutes for Teachers, which were sponsored by Robert Pinsky’s Favorite Poem Project and the Boston University School of Education.
Representative Poetry Online from the University of Toronto: This site includes more than 3,000 English poems by 500 poets, a glossary of poetic terms, and a link to the Canadian Poetry website.
Teach Now! National Poetry Month (From Scholastic): Here you will find a wealth of poetry ideas and resources under the following headings: Poems and Classroom Activities, Poetry Writing Workshops and Events, and Poetry Resources.
Poetry Resources: Tricia Stohr-Hunt provides links to more than two dozen websites with poetry resources at Open Wide, Look Inside, her blog about using poetry and children’s literature across the curriculum.
April Is National Poetry Month! (From Read Write Think): Includes links to poetry lesson plans and other resources.
30 Ways to Celebrate (From the Academy of American Poets)
From the Yale New Haven Teacher Institute: Three Entire Curriculum Units for Teachers
Poems That Work
Poetry for the Elementary Classroom
Reading, Writing, and Reciting
POETRY ACTIVITIES & CRAFTS
From Crayola: Poems and Paintings
From Crayola: Poem in My Pocket
From Poets.org: Poem in Your Pocket Day (April 29, 2010)
Magnetic Poetry
From Harcourt Trade Publishers: Free Classroom Kit for Julie Larios’s poetry book Imaginary Menagerie
CHILDREN’S POETRY BOOK LISTS
New Poetry Books for Young People 2005-2010 (Compiled by Sylvia Vardell, Professor at the School of Library & Information Studies at Texas Woman's University)
CCBC Words to Share: A Bibliography of Poetry for Children and Teens (Compiled by Megan Schliesman)
From RIF: Judy Freeman’s 40 Favorite Poetry Books for Children
From The Horn Book: Recommended Poetry Books
From Scholastic: Poetry Month Booklist
From KidsReads.com: Pick a Peck of Poems
RECIPIENTS OF THE NCTE WARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN POETRY FOR CHILDREN
2009—Lee Bennett Hopkins
2006—Nikki Grimes
2003—A Poem Is a House for Words: NCTE Profiles Mary Ann Hoberman
2000—X. J. Kennedy
1997—Eloise Greenfield
1994—Barbara Juster Esbensen
1991—Valerie Worth
1988—Arnold Adoff
1985—Lilian Moore
1982—John Ciardi
1981—Eve Merriam
1980—Myra Cohn Livingston
1979—Karla Kuskin
1978—Aileen Fisher
1977—David McCord
Printable Poetry Winner Sheet
MORE ABOUT CHILDREN”S POETS
A Poetry Workshop in Print (From Teaching PreK-8) At this site, you will find brief articles about many different children’s poets written by Lee Bennett Hopkins. (Many thanks to Tricia Stohr-Hunt for the link to this site)
From Scholastic: Interview with Nikki Giovanni
WEBSITES OF CHILDREN’S POETS
Linda Ashman
Calef Brown
Kalli Dakos
Rebecca Kai Dotlich
Ralph Fletcher
Betsy Franco
Kristine O’Connell George
Nikki Grimes
Mary Ann Hoberman
Bobbi Katz
J. Patrick Lewis
Deborah Ruddell
Laura Salas
Joyce Sidman
Marilyn Singer
Eileen Spinelli
Janet Wong
CHILDREN’S POETS WHO BLOG
Douglas Florian
Linda Kulp
Julie Larios
Laura Salas
POETRY WEBSITES
The Academy of American Poets (Main Page) & National Poetry Month Page
American Life in Poetry
Favorite Poem Project
The Poetry Foundation
NPR Poetry Page
Poetry Daily
Poetry Out Loud
Poetry 180
Poetry4Kids
The Children’s Poetry Archive
The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor
WILD ROSE READER INTERVIEWS WITH CHILDREN”S POETS
(Listed Alphabetically)
Rebecca Kai Dotlich
Douglas Florian: Part 1 & Part 2
Paul Janeczko
J. Patrick Lewis
Joyce Sidman
Janet Wong
A SELECTION OF WILD ROSE READER & BLUE ROSE GIRLS POETRY POSTS
POETRY FRIDAY: The Poetry of Mary Ann Hoberman
More Mary Ann Hoberman
New Children's Poet Laureate Announced!
The Poetry of Rebecca Kai Dotlich
POETRY FRIDAY: Nikki Grimes
POETRY BOOK REVIEWS FROM WILD ROSE READER & BLUE ROSE GIRLS
SEASONAL & WEATHER POETRY
POETRY FRIDAY: Spring Is...
Welcoming Spring...with Poetry
POETRY FRIDAY: Summersaults and Lemonade Sun
Fall into Poetry
POETRY FRIDAY: Winter in Poems & Paintings
POETRY FRIDAY: 'Tis the Seasons
POETRY FRIDAY: IN THE GARDEN AGAIN
Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems
POETRY FRIDAY (Includes reviews of Busy in the Garden & Beware, Take Care: Fun and Spooky Poems)
Red Sings from Treetops: A Book Review & An Invitation
Book Bunch: It's All about the Weather
Children's Poetry Books for Halloween
POETRY ABOUT ANIMALS
Stella, Unleashed: Poetry Book Review
Poetry Book Review: On the Farm
Butterfly Bonanza
Poetry Friday: Toad by the Road
Leaping Lizards! It's the Year of the Frog
Into the Sea Once More
Over in the Garden
POETRY FRIDAY: Animal Poems by Valerie Worth
Poetry Book Review & Videos: Our Farm by Maya Gottfried
The Frogs and Toads All Sang: A Book of Poems by Arnold Lobel
Poetry Friday: Animal Haiku
SCHOOL POEMS
Poetry Friday: Going Back to School...with Poetry
More School Poems: Review of School Supplies
Hamsters, Shells, and Spelling Bees: School Poems
Poetry Friday: Swimming Upstream
Stampede! Poems to Celebrate the Wild Side of School
Countdown to Summer: A Poetry Book Review
NATURE & SCIENCE POETRY
Poetry and Science, Part I
Poetry and Science, Part II
POETRY FRIDAY: Science & Poetry
POETRY FRIDAY: Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars
UPDATE: Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars...and Pluto
POETRY FRIDAY: Joyce Sidman, Part I
POETRY SATURDAY: Joyce Sidman, Part II
The Sun in Me: Poems about the Planet
The Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature Science and Imagination
Book Review: Sky Magic Compiled bt Lee Bennett Hopkins
HAIKU
POETRY FRIDAY: Happy Haiku to You
Poetry Book Review: Yum! Mmmm! Que Rico!
OTHER POETRY BOOK REVIEW POSTS
The World's Greatest: Poems--A Book Review
Book Bunch: Looking at Langston Hughes
Poetry and Art
Words...Wonderful Words, Words, Words
POETRY FRIDAY: Here's a Little Poem
POETRY FRIDAY: Yoga Poems (Includes an interview with author Janet Wong and illustrator Julie Paschkis)
POETRY FRIDAY: This Is Just to Say
POETRY FRIDAY: Fairy Tale Poems
Button Up!: Wrinkled Rhymes by Alice Schertle
My Cat Is in Love with the Goldfish and Other Loopy Love Poems
Poetry Book Review: Incredible Inventions Complide by Lee Bennett Hopkins
RECIPE & HOW TO POEMS
Recipe & How to Make... Poems, Part I
Recipe & How to Make... Poems, Part II
Recipe Poem: How to Make a Morning
How to Bring Spring: An Original Poem
CHILDREN’S POETRY VIDEOS
Children’s Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman Presents: Laughing Time Mary Ann Hoberman reads from William Jay Smith’s Laughing Time (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1990), a favorite children’s poetry collection of the Poet Laureate and her family.
The Hypnotizer by Michael Rosen—This may be the world’s first video poetry book. Here’s Rosen’s explanation of The Hypnotizer: "I wrote a book of poems for children called 'The Hypnotiser' some years ago and then it went out of print. I couldn't get anyone to reprint it, so I asked my son Joe to film me performing the book for this website."
Hatchling’s Song from Judy Sierra’s Antarctic Antics (Weston Woods)
April Rain Song—by Langston Hughes (Animated Poem from the Poetry Foundation’s Classical Baby Video Series)
A Very Valentine—written & read by Gertrude Stein (Animated Poem from the Poetry Foundation’s Classical Baby Video Series)
Mariposa—written by Federico Garcia Lorca & read by Andy Garcia (Animated Poem from the Poetry Foundation’s Classical Baby Video Series)
Chromosome Poem—written & read by J. Patrick Lewis (Scholastic)
POETRY ARTICLES FROM THE HORN BOOK
Audio Poetry: A Call to Words by Kristi Jemetegaad (May/June 2005)
On Originality in Children’s Poetry by J. Patrick Lewis (May/June 2005)
“Writing poetry for children is a curious occupation”: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath by Lissa Paul (May/June 2005)
Purposeful Poetry by Susan Dove Lempke (May/June 2005)
On Poetry and Black American Poets by Ashley Bryan (February 1979)
Edited to Add (March 26, 2009):
National Poetry Month 2009: Essential Pleasures. This great post comes to us from Becky at Farm School.
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3 comments:
Oh, what a terrific resource post. Thank you! (And thanks for listing my site under poets, too.)
Laura,
It took me quite some time to update last year's list of resources. A number of the book lists and resources were no longer available. But...I did find some great new resources.
Oodles of wonderful stuff, Elaine -- thanks so much! I've linked to it to spread the word...
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