Poetry
Search the CLPE extensive bank of poems for children, poetry teaching resources, videos of poet performances and interviews to support the teaching of poetry.
National Poetry Day
Although suitable for any time of year, you can explore this site for ideas to celebrate National Poetry Day with poetry in school. It features Toolkit for Schools and downloadable teaching resources.
Fizzy Funny Fuzzy Poetry for Kids
Funny poems for children on lots of different subjects. The author is Gareth Lancaster. You can print out the poems and email them to a friend if you want.
The Children's Poetry Archive
A superb selection of poems arranged by themes, style or author. You can listen to an audio track of each poem being read by the author.
The Poetry Zone
An inspirational poetry site with all sorts. If you are between 4 and 18 you can send in your poems to be published. There are ideas for teachers on how to teach poetry. Read interviews with poets and find contact details for poets who visit schools.
Poetry4Kids
Lots of poetry for children and good tips for writing poetry. Great for teaching ideas and Kenn Nesbitt is also available for school visits.
Representative Poetry On-line
Electronic poetry site indexed by name of poet, titles, first lines and by criticism on poetry.
Visuwords
A graphical dictionary and thesaurus which is a great teaching aid on an interactive whiteboard if you are encouraging children to think of alternative words in their creative writing.
Poetryclass
Poetryclass can help teachers wanting to bring poetry alive in the classroom. It has good ideas for teaching poetry.
The Highwayman Interactive Study Resource
The classic poem by Alfred Noyes is featured here. The first part of the poem has the parts of speech such as alliteration, similes, personification and metaphors indicated.
