My fourth grade students are working on poetry for a few weeks and I have discovered some truly wonderful, fun-filled websites. Here’s my list, each one tested and approved by 75 fourth graders. Just click the picture to go to the website:
Acrostic
Haiku
Cinquain
Song Poems
Robo-poems
Poetry Engine
Splatter Poetry
Giggle Poetry
Want more? These are on my list, but I didn’t get to them this year:
- Analyzing, reading and writing literature
- Favorite Poem Project
- Fourth Grade Poems
- Funny Poetry
- Glossary of Poetry Terms
- Parts of Speech Poetry
- Poetry forms
- Poetry with a Porpoise
- Shaped Poems–fun
- Shel Silverstein
Do you have any to share? What do your students like?
–From the technology curriculum by Structured Learning
Jacqui Murray is the editor of a technology curriculum for K-fifth grade and author of two technology training books for middle school. She wrote Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy midshipman. She is webmaster for five blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a columnist for Examiner.com, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, IMS tech expert, and a weekly contributor to Write Anything and Technology in Education. Currently, she’s working on a techno-thriller that should be ready this summer. Contact Jacqui at her writing office, WordDreams, or her tech lab, Ask a Tech Teacher.
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I would like to invite all young or old to ourpoetrycorner@wordpress.com educational poetry along with everything else! Great site for children to learn about their country and the American Heroes, sure you will all enjoy!
Hey, Donna, what’s the website? The link goes to an email address. Sounds like a great site. Thanks!
Thank YOU very much Donna for your kind words on ourpoetrycorner@wordpress.com My style of writing is unique as I combine facts with poetry about our country America and the people who made this country great American Heroes. I recommend all ages especially our young people. They all should know about their country they live in. I figure if they can learn lyrics in a song in five minutes then they can learn America and American Heroes, education is of great value. Also posted are many other topics on our poetry corner. A pleasure to stop by and read, Thank YOU, Ron
For those interested, the website is http://ourpoetrycorner.wordpress.com/