Do you like to laugh? Then check out these funny poems - You can read school poems, try out poetry theater, or enter your poems in a contest.

Grandpa Tucker has written silly songs, poems, and stories. There's even a Java JukeBox: you can choose songs and listen to them while you check out the rest of the site.

Listen to cool stories online, build a beast in the game section, read poems, and have lots of fun at this amazing website. Games, stories, poems, and music - Inkless Tales has it all. Check it out! Awarded an American Library Association "Great Web Sites" Recommendation.

Read funny or sad poems, written by famous poets and kids like you.

Learn how to write a poem with popular children’s poet Jack Prelutsky and then publish it online!

This great website provides lots of great ideas for students and teachers. Try some of their activities and explore their links.

Welcome to my Poetry Club! Every day I pick a poem and publish it right here. After you read today's poem, click on the notebooks. You can Write a poem of your own; look for your own poem, or other kids' poems in Read more poems; or find out about some of my favorite poem styles in What's a poem.

A great interactive site that will help students get started writing their own riddle poems.  From Read, Write and Think.

In this lesson plan with interactive elements, students are asked to think about colors, while imagining what they taste, feel, smell, sound, and look like, and then use their five senses as a prewriting tool to guide their poetry writing.  

In this lesson, students will use their senses to experience poetry. Students will listen to poems and rhymes, clap out syllables, and sing along with familiar tunes. They will also use puppets and crafts to help recall and retell favorite poems. Finally, students will write their own original poems.  The lesson site includes templates, downloadable materials and activities.

In this lesson, students learn the rules and conventions of haiku, study examples by Japanese masters, and create haiku of their own.  Lesson site includes links which provide background and resources for the lesson.

From Read, Write and Think, this is a great tool to help students compose their own poetry using a virtual magnetic poetry board.

This interactive activity from Read, Write and Think guides students through writing their own shape poem.

In this student interactive, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, students record examples and their definitions of several different types of poetry, including diamante, limerick, acrostic and others.

This student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, offers information about and instructions for writing two-voice poetry.

This student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, guides students through the process of writing a diamante poem.

This interactive, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, guides students through the process of writing a diamante poem.

This student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, guides students through the process of writing a cinquain poem.

This student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, guides students through the process of writing a non-rhyming poem using the questions who, what, where, when and why.

This student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, guides students through the process of writing a biographical poem about themselves.

This student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, guides students through the process of writing a poem about themselves.

This student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, guides students through the process of writing a name poem using their own name.

This student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, guides students through the process of writing an acrostic about a classmate.

This student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, guides students through the process of writing limerick.

This student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, guides students through the process of writing a two-voice poem.