Poetry is an exciting way to hook your students on reading.

To add your bibliography annotations GO TO THIS PAGE. Choose a TOTAL OF 4 ARTICLES from all/any the workshop topics and write a BRIEF annotation of each. You may find your own article resource. To give yourself credit after each one you do, add your name like this:(your name).

http://teachersmentor.com/readingk3/using_poetry.html

This site teaches you how to teach poetry.  Gives great advice and links to poetry and authors.

http://www.readinglady.com/Poetry/Reading/reading.html - lots of poems from The Reading Lady

http://www.fizzyfunnyfuzzy.com/showpoem.php?poemID=33

http://www.bedfordk12tn.com/harris/spotlight.htm

Over 30 wonderful lessons on poetry that are compiled for you to tap into. (From Harris Middle School, TN)

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/index.htm

Scholastic walks you through easy lessons.

http://www.lessonplansearch.com/Thematic_Units/Poetry/

This site contains at lest 25 other sites to help the middle school teacher develop poetry lessons. Great resource for teaching poetry.

http://home.cogeco.ca/%7Erayser3/poetry.htm#visual

Many lessons with hot links to other pages.

http://www.uleth.ca/edu/currlab/handouts/poetry_ideas.html

This is a wealth of information on how to set up poetry centers in your classroom.

http://www.poetryteachers.com/

This site shows you how to teach poetry, have poetry theater and many poetry activities.

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do

HEAR the poets themselves reading their poems with this site. "Poetry, like music, is to be heard." by Basil Bunting. The Poetry Archive is the world's premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work.

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~savega/afampoet.html

20th Century African American Poetry 

30 Days of Poetry

http://www.msrogers.com/English2/poetry/30_days_of_poetry.htm

The day number is your link to the lessons. Each lesson gives you a format to follow and student examples. In many cases the teacher will direct you to write more than one poem in a lesson. This gives the writer an opportunity to use the form and, most often, create an even better poem in doing so.

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=835 – lesson plan on "found" poetry performance

http://www.poetry4kids.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=5 – fun ideas for righting humorous poetry

http://www.authorsinschools.com/ - introduces contemporary poets

http://www.gigglepoetry.com/ - Bruce Lansky’s site

http://home.cogeco.ca/%7Erayser3/poetry.htm#visual – poetry lesson plans for upper elementary and middle school