This is a presentation aimed at primary school teachers given as a SchoolNet webinar on Thursday 6 February 2014. The presentation shows poetry sites on the Internet that encourage even the most reluctant writer to write beautiful poems. .

1. Poetry sites you’ll love…
by Fiona Beal from SchoolNetSA
fiona@schoolnet.org.za

3. A. Read Write Think
http://www.readwritethink.org/
Write
‘poetry
interactives
’ in the
search box

4. 1. Theme or Shape poems

5. Choose your shape category

6. Choose your shape

7. Start writing

8. 2. Diamante poems

10. Examples

11. They provide a page of instructions

12. Step by step process

13. Plenty of
lesson
ideas for
each group

14. 3. Acrostic poems

17. This is how you print or save

18. 4. Word mover poems

21. Option 1– your own words

22. Option 2– use their word banks

23. 5. Letter poem creator

24. Step I - Write a short note

25. Step 2 – select words that stand out

26. Step 3 – break words into three ideas

27. Step 4 – Use line breaks

28. Many other types of interactives

29. B. Poetry engine from Scholastic
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/flash_
pie.htm

30. Four kinds – Haiku, Limerick,
Cinquain and Free Verse

31. Instructions are provided first and then
the writing starts

32. C. Poem Generators from
Oakdome http://oakdome.com/

33. ‘Holiday poem’
generator

34. ‘I am poem’
generator

35. D. Display poems on Microsoft
PowerPoint
• Easily add clipart
• Move everything around easily
• PowerPoint can be changed to a portrait
orientation if desired
• Easily add Word Art and different fonts for effect
• Can be saved as a image or a PDF
• Could put these images into one PDF, upload into
a free Youblisher.com e-book and share with
parents

36. E. Laura Candler’s poetry page
http://www.lauracandler.com/filecabinet/literacy/poetry.php

39. D. Display media poems using
Microsoft PhotoStory 3
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Find suitable royalty free images
Add background music created in Photostory3
Narrate into the photostory
Example:
http://www.lauracandler.com/filecabinet/literacy/PDFPoetry/if%20I%20were%20i
n%20charge%20of%20the%20world.wmv

40. E. More Poetry Resources
• Poetry sites to get those words flowing –
SchoolNet blog
• Open mic poetry – video and lesson plan from
The Teaching Channel
• Poetry lessons for kids
• Poetry at elementary school
• Five reasons why we need poetry at school
• Poetry lesson ideas

41. Thank you!