18 Great Poetry Websites

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:

poetry
Acrostic
haikus
Haiku

Cinquain
song poems
Song Poems
poetry
Robo-poems
poetry generator
Poetry Engine
poetry
Splatter Poetry
funny poems
Giggle Poetry

Want more? These are on my list, but I didn’t get to them this year:

  1. Analyzing, reading and writing literature
  2. Favorite Poem Project
  3. Fourth Grade Poems
  4. Funny Poetry
  5. Glossary of Poetry Terms
  6. Parts of Speech Poetry
  7. Poetry forms
  8. Poetry with a Porpoise
  9. Shaped Poems–fun
  10. Shel Silverstein

Do you have any to share? What do your students like?


Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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