technology tips for poetry
for all students

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Quill pens just don’t cut it any more for our young tech-savvy poets. Motivate your poets by infusing various technologies along the writing journey:

• Expose your students to many different types of poetry. Beyond books, you can find a great quantity of poems on the Internet:
  • Giggle Poetry — http://www.gigglepoetry.com/
  • Poetry4Kids — http://www.poetry4kids.com/
• Your students can listen to famous poets reading their work.
  • Children’s Poetry Archive http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/
• Experience various poetry forms by spending time at:
  • Writing Fix for Poets http://writingfix.com/poetry_prompts.htm
  • Poetry Express — http://www.poetryexpress.org/
  • Scholastic's Poetry — http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/
• Practice with different poetry forms using online poetry generators. Online poetry generators for acrostics, diamantes, idioms, and shape poems are available at:
  • Read • Write • Think — http://www.readwritethink.org
• Use a word processor as a poetry journal, for students to cut and paste ideas and phrases from their Internet experiences. Then, give students time to compose several different poems.
• When it’s time to get down and dirty with revision, try:
  • Word Central — http://www.wordcentral.com/
  • RhymeZone — http://www.rhymezone.com/

Completed poetry may be celebrated by publishing via technology tools such as:

• Kid Pix - use drawing tools to illustrate
• PowerPoint (or other presentation software) - visually enhance poetry with slideshows
• Microsoft Word (or other word processing package) - add borders and clipart to dress up the printed page
• The Web - encourage students to enter online contests
  • Poetry Zone — http://www.poetryzone.ndirect.co.uk/index2.htm
  • Skipping Stones — http://www.skippingstones.org/
  • Young Poets — http://www.youngpoets.org/

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