This site also contains a plethora of activites and games that can be used to teach poetry skills to children. Some of the activities are available with full lesson plans and their are online and offline options available. Lessons are geared toward students are various ages and the site also provides a poetry assessment rubric at the end of the page. This is a huge collection of lessons and activities teachers can use to teach poetry and songs to children. Activities include rhymes for children, games and activities that incorporate poetry, simile and metaphor lessons, alliteration lessons, grammar and poetry skills, tongue twisters, and many others.
Resources are available for many of the lessons.
This site is a resource for both teachers and children. It also has a listing of school poetry, original poetry, story poetry, and a place for students to submit their own original verses. This site contains a huge listing of lesson plans and activities to be used in phonics instruction. Available activities include general phonics awareness activities and games, computer activities, and a variety of hands on activities and songs. Also available are lessons to teach initial and final sounds, syllables, and specific letters.