Poetry+sites

My favourite poetry sites.

1. Giggle Poetry’s Fill in the Blank Poems is a simple tool that allows students write the last line to a poem. It is probably best for Grades 3-5. []

2. Create Smokers Poems to show the dangers of smoking. []

3. Instant Poetry Forms – This is a great interactive literacy site - it is one of the best poetry resources on the web. Scroll down on the left to preview the poem templates. Students fill in the blanks with their own content and click "Create". []

4. Poetry Splatter is a fun, interactive fill in the blank poem tool. Choose the type of poem you wish to write, click splatter, and the tool will toss suggested words. []

5. Read Write Think Acrostic Poem is great for younger students. []

6. Read Write Think Diamante Poem gives students a chance to explore diamante poems with this easy fill in the blank tool. []

7. Read Write Think Shape Poems Tool allows the student to choose a theme for the poem (sports, nature, school, or celebrations) to fill in his content. []

8. Write a Song-Poem from PBS is meant for older students. Simply type in lyrics and the interactive will create a melody for the song. []

9. A lovely, interactive site that teaches the limerick, haiku, cinquain and free verse forms. []

10. This is a tool that allows the learners to drag the provided magnets into a haiku format. []

11. This is a collection of magnetic words that you rearrange into a poetry form at []

12. A magnetic poetry site from Read Write Think’s website. You can add your own words and you can print. is a basic magnetic poetry tool except you can add your own words and print. This is great for a quick activity with students. []

13. Another collection of words to arrange in a poetric format. The learners can then retype the words and email their completed poem to the teacher. []

14. This is a collection of magnetic Shakespeare type words to rearrange in a poem. []

15. This is a metaphor generator site to enhance figurative language unit. It offers three poem generators along with other teacher resources. []

16. This poem generator makes random poems. First, it randomly selects sentence patterns. Then, wherever the pattern has a number, it randomly selects a word from one of the numbered word lists. You can either choose one of the sample sets of words and sentence patterns, or you can enter your own words and sentence patterns []

17. This comes from the Intel Innovation in education site. Students describe themselves and then take digital photos to represent the poem. The self portraits use digital photography, poetry, and PowerPoint. []

