Giggle Poetry is a website that houses many fun activities that could be used at both school and at home.  While this website has many different applications, this link will take you to the Poetry Theater.  The Poetry Theater has a variety of different poems that students can act out.  Some of the poems are also two voice poems so students can act out the poem together.   I chose the poem, I Went to the Doctor.  If you click on the green box to the side that says Poetry Theater, you will be able to view the many other poems available.

Shel Silverstein is a website that has all of Shel Silverstein’s most famous poems.  Once you are in the website, you can choose the Shel's Books link at the top of the page.  This will pull up a list of some of his most famous pieces.  After you select one it takes you to the page with the poem on it.  The best part is that there are even videos for each poem that students can watch.  This link will take you to A Giraffe and a Half.

Reading is Fundamental is a website that has many useful poetry and reading activities.  The link will take you to a game called Poetry Splatter.  When you are in Poetry Splatter, you first pick an age range for the student creating the poem.  Next, you pick a poem title from the options given to you and it opens up your poem in a new window.  Once you have your poem outline there are blank spaces to put words into.  The student will click the word splat and it gives him or her a variety of words to put in the blanks.  The student can keep clicking splat to get new words and then he or she will just drags the words to fill in the blank.

ZuZu offers a great selection of poems that were written by students of all ages.  You can even specify the poetry category that you wish to view and it will take you to all the poems on the website that fit within that category.  This page is a great resource for both students and parents since it gives a good insight into the type of work students at different ages can create.  

Fun English Games has a wonderful poetry game to get students thinking about the different features and types of poetry.  The students are first given a poem to read and then there is a series of questions they are asked about it.  When the students get the answers wrong it tells them why their selection was incorrect and gives them insight in what that specific word they chose means. This would be a great way for students to practice what they have learned about poetry.

Hello Literacy has combined all of the different types of poetry elements into one useful sheet.  The sheet lists things such as: Alliteration, metaphors, similes, etc.  This resource would be helpful to students when learning about different types of poetry so they could identify which type of poetic elements they were using in their poems.  A teacher could simply print this sheet out for each student to have or they could copy it onto a poster to hang on the classroom wall.

Elements of Poetry is a slideshare that goes over all of the key elements of poetry.  It begins with discussing what poetry is and then begins discussing different elements of poetry; such as rhyme.  This slideshare would be a wonderful resource to use when beginning a poetry unit.  It would give students a strong foundation of what poetry is and what elements they will be expected to use when writing their own poetry pieces.

Similes and Metaphors is a video that covers the differences between similes and metaphors.  This video would be useful when teaching poetry because both similes and metaphors are key elements found in a variety of poetic pieces.  It could be shown when students are first learning about what similes and metaphors are or used as a way to help students review these elements in the upper elementary grades.