Love that Dog-Poetry Writing

Try your hand at writing poetry.  Be inspired by one of the poems Mrs, Stretchberry read to Jack's class.  Or try this poetry idea generating machine.

Here are some more resources from Scholastic to get you started!

Click here to try some other forms:
Acrostic
Diamante

Want to read some more poetry for inspiration?  Try these sites:

Poems and Poets Referred to in Love That Dog

• William Carlos Williams http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=120 this includes a biography and links to his poetry including The Red Wheelbarrow.
• Robert Frost http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=196
• Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=103
• The Pasture http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=106
• Arnold Adoff Love Letters http://www.arnoldadoff.com/
• The Apple by S.C.Rigg, a pseudonym for Sharon Creech, is explained on the web site Inspiration for Love That Dog http://sharoncreech.co.uk/inspri.asp.  But, if you are looking for other shape poems, I suggest Splish Splash by Joan Bransfield Graham http://www.joangraham.com/  and Doodle Dandies by J. Patrick Lewis.    
• Online Concrete Poetry http://www.gardendigest.com/concrete/cvpindex.htm
• Wrighting Poetry http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/wright/teachers/wfomanual/langarts/poem.html
• Walter Dean Myers http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/authors/myer.html Meet the Author http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/wdmyers.html
• Valerie Worth www.ncte.org/elem/Poetry/Worth.pdf
• William Blake http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=117

Tyger from Songs of Innocence and Experience copy 1789, 1794   http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/blakeinteractive/works/songs_06.html

• In the next three sites, well known children’s poetry authors help students write their own poems plus feature many of their own poems.
• Kristine O’Connell George http://www.kristinegeorge.com/
• Bruce Lansky Giggle Poetry http://www.gigglepoetry.com/
• Writing with Writers http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/index.htm
• We all need a little help when it comes to writing poetry.  These next two sites should be on any teacher’s favorites list.
• Poetry Express http://www.poetryexpress.org/
• Rhyming Dictionary http://rhyme.lycos.com/