This document provides 10+ ideas and resources for teaching poetry, including analyzing poems, creating acrostic, diamante, limerick, and collaborative poetry. It suggests using apps and websites like Readwritethink, Channel 4 Learning, Voicethread, Pinterest, Padlet, and Linoit to create poetry individually or in groups. Bookmarking resources on Pear.ly and sharing links on Bit.ly are also recommended.

1. Teaching Poetry
10+ Ideas &Resources
ShellyTerrell.com
Pear.ly/bWN8P
Bit.ly/ELTLINKs

2. “Poetry is when an
emotion has found its
thought and the thought
has found words.”
- Robert Frost

5. http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/davidc/6c_files/Poem
%20pics/cinquaindescrip.htm

6. Acrostic Poems on RWT
Readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/acrostic/

7. Diamante Poems on RWT
Readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-
interactives/diamante-poems-30053.html

8. Limericks
channel4learning.com/sites/bookbox/games/limericks/home.htm

9. Limericks
channel4learning.com/sites/bookbox/games/limericks/home.htm

10. Limericks
channel4learning.com/sites/bookbox/games/limericks/home.htm

11. Teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/flash_pie.htm

12. Create Poems on PicLits

13. Create Poems on Muzy

14. More Muzy Apps

18. Poetry on Voicethread

19. Ideas
•Create a collaborative
poetry book
•Analyze poems
•Recite poems

20. Bit.ly/10ESCqR
An area where
students can pin
their favorite
poems and
images/art to go
with the poems

21. Collaborative Pinterest

22. Padlet.com

23. Linoit.com

24. Create a Collaborative Poetry Book on Mixbook

26. Magneticpoetry.com

29. Word Mover IOS App
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/word-mover/id572997152?mt=8

30. Cool Apps
to Create
Poetry

31. Write About This IOS App
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/write-about-this-free/id601382666?ls=1&mt=8

32. Storylines IOS App
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/storylines-for-schools/id492805472?mt=8

33. Lessonstream.org/topic/poetry

34. Eric Aguilar Poetry Reading by paulinebalba, Flickr, CC 2.0

35. All resources bookmarked here, Pear.ly/bWN8P

36. ShellyTerrell.com
Pear.ly/bWN8P
Bit.ly/ELTLINKs