Poetry

Baby karaoke
http://www.abc.net.au/parents/baby_karaoke/
This ABC site provides simple songs for singing to young children. The songs are provided as animations with sound, and subtitled with words highlighted as they are sung. So they can be used as a reading exercise as well.

Library of Congress: Poetry [pdf, Real Player]

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/

On a recent visit to the Library of Congress: Poetry website, the first line of a poem by William Stafford appeared on the top of the page. The poem in question was “At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border”, and it just one of many poems that can be found on this simple delightful site. Amidst this cornucopia of poems, visitors can also learn about the current poet laureate and take in a few webcasts from the “Poet Vision” series. It is an august group indeed, and some of the programs include those that profile Rita Dove, Louise Gluck, and Stanley Kunitz. Visitors can also look over a list of poetry news and events and breeze on through the related resources offered by the Library of Congress. Educators and students will want to pay close attention to the “For Teachers & Students” area, where they can find resources designed to bring poetry into the classroom in an experiential fashion.

The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat  aka The Duel (Eugene Field)
The Adventures of Isabel (Ogden Nash)
Custard the Dragon

edward lear
lewis carroll
shel silverstein
jack prelutsky
doug florian


I know that kids love poetry and they really have fun with it; especially
when they get to pick what they want to write about.  Go over the different
kinds of poetry (limmerick, acrostic, cinquain, shape poetry,etc.) and let
them choose who one they prefer.

The K-3s

Shel Silverstein's (The Light in the Attic, Where the sidewalk ends, etc.)

 Jack Prelutsky  The New Kid on the Block,  Something Big has Been Here and  My
Parents Think I'm Sleeping.

Arnold Adoff

stories in rhyme, like The Giant Jam Sandwich

For the older kids, Casey at the Bat,

Sharon Creech's Love That Dog,

Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust.

Dennis Lee,

Kalli Dakos,

a bookcalled Jumpety Bumpity Hop,

Eric Carle's Animals Animals andDragons Dragons,

Lewis Carroll,

A. A. Milne,

Kenn Nesbit,

Eve Merriam,

Valerie Worth,

Vachel Lindsay,

Aileen Fisher,

Bobbi Kalman.


illustrated by
Christopher Bing,
"Casey at the bat". 

"Hurry, hurry, Mary Dear"
A.A. Milne

Title:  Casey at the bat : a ballad of the Republic sung in the
year 1888 /
Author:  Thayer, Ernest Lawrence,

Title:  The midnight ride of Paul Revere /
Author:  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,
     With maps and facsimiles of actual documents.
Subjects:
    

Title:  Hurry, hurry, Mary dear /
Author:  Bodecker, N. M.
     A woman frantically rushes to prepare fot the
fast-approaching winter while her husband sits idly by.
Subjects:
    

Title:  Now we are six /
Author:  Milne, A.A.
     A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a
little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth
century.



Florian, George,

J.Patrick Lewis,

Grimes, Aileen Fisher;

Dickinson, Frost,

Stevenson, Wallace

Jack Prelutsky

 Shel Silverstein,

  Nicky Grimes

Poems Third Graders should know


Adventures of Isabel by Ogden Nash

By Myself by Elise Greenfield

Catch a little Rhyme  By Eve Merriam

Dream Variations by Langston Hughes

Knoxville, Tennesee by Nikki Giovanni

The Crocodile  by Lewis Carroll

Trees  by Sergeant Joyce Kilmer

For want of a nail (Traditional Mothe Goose rhyme)

Jimmy Jet and his TV set by Shel Silverstein

First Thanksgiving of All by Nancy Byrd Turner

Eletelephony by Laura Richards

Father William by Lewis Carroll


POEMS Fourth Graders Should Know

Monday's Child is fair of Face  Author unknown

Humanity  by Elma Stuckey

Fog by Carl Sandburg

Things by Eloise Greenfield

Dreams  by Langston Hughes

Afternoon on a Hill  by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Rhinioceros by Ogden Nash

The Pobble who has no toes  by Edward Lear

A Tragic Story  by William Makepeace Thackeray

Clarence by Shel Silverstein

Paul evere's Ride  by Heny Wadsworth Longfellow

Concord Hymn  by Ralph Waldo Emerson

George Washington by Stephen Vincent Benet




 

Acrostic poetry: using digital imaging

http:// stars-cwc.cwc.cc.wy.us/lessonbank/DC/IT/Website/1/