Resources for Teaching Poetry and Songs

Reference and idea books

Title Discussing Literature Read and Uunderstand Poetry Grades 4-5) Easy Poetry Lessons That Dazzle and Delight Enjoying Poetry Lets Experience and Appreciate Poetry (KS 2) Poetry Works - Book 3 Poetry Works - Book 3 Teacher Guide Poetry Works - Book 4 Poetry Works - Book 4 Teacher Guide Poetry Writing Poetry Writing Handbook Poetry is The Learning and Teaching of Poetry (S 1 3) The Learning and Teaching of Poetry (Senior Secondary) NETworking: Using Poetry in the English Classroom Using Poems in Schools Timesaver Raps! For Learning English Music and Song (Oxford English Resource Books for Teachers)
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Author/Editor Hazel Edwards D.L. Harrison and B. E. Cullinan Sadler, Hayllar, Powell Mary Green Mary Green Mary Green Mary Green Kimberly A. Williams Greta Barclay Lipson, Ed.D Denise Scott

Publisher Longman Cheshire Pty Limited Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Scholastic Inc MacMillan Education Australia Pty Ltd Curriculum Development Institute, ED Folens Limited Folens Limited Folens Limited Folens Limited Teacher Created Resources, Inc Teaching and Learning Company Heinemann Educational Australia Curriculum Development Institute, ED Curriculum Development Institute, ED NET Section, Curriculum Development Institute, EDB

ISBN Number 0-582-66552-3 1-55799-993-7 0-590-12050-6 0-333-29972-8 962-8103-62-8 1-84163-352-6 1-84163-692-4 1-84163-355-0 1-84163-693-2 1-57690-998-0 1-57310-108-7 085859-247-9 962-8103-86-5 962-8814-26-5

Mike Murphy Johnson, S & Stannett, K Tim Murphey

Institute of Language in Education, ED Mary Glasgow Magazines Oxford University Press

962-7854-034 1900702207 978-0-19-437055-4

Heinemann ELT Hits Singing Grammar

K Ludlow and P Reilly Mark Hancock

Macmillan English Cambridge ELT

9780435251000 9780521625425

CD-rom with performance of solo and choral verse-speaking

Good Practices in Speech Activities English Section, Advisory Inspectorate Division, Education Department, HK 1999

Anthologies of poetry Title

Food Rhymes Images Juggling a Jug of Jelly Machine Poems My Family and Me - Poems about People New Choice Rhythm and Rhyme Strictly Private An Anthology of Poetry The Complete School Verse The Kingfisher Book of Children's Poetry The New Oxford Treasury of Children's Poems

Author/Editor
John Foster George Pappas & Brett Lewis John Foster Jill Bennett John Foster John and Dorothy Colmer Mike Murphy Roger McGough Jennifer & Graeme Curry Michael Rosen Michael Harrison & Christopher Stuart-Clark
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Publisher
Oxford University Press Longman Cheshire Pty Limited Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Oxford University Press F.W. Cheshire Publishing Pty Ltd The Hong Kong Institute of Education Viking Kestrel Random House Childrens books Kingfisher Publications Plc Oxford University Press

ISBN Number
0-19-276165X 0-582-66009-2 0-19-276285-0 0-19-276114-5 0-19-2762877 SBN 7015-1238-5 962-949-006-4 0-670-80019-8 0-09-991790-4 0-86272-784-7 0-19-276196-X

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The Power of Poetry The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry The Poetry Store Sensational Read Me 1 and 2 Read Me Out Loud The Works: Every poem you will ever need for the literacy hour The Works 2: Poems for every subject and for every occasion The Works 3: A Poet a week The Works 4: Poems about everything The Works 5: An alphabet of poets The Works 6: Poems for assembly The New Dragon Book of Verse Your Turn - 33 Lessons in Poetry

Eshuys & Guest Brian Patten Paul Cookson Roger McGough Paul Cookson and Nick Toczek Paul Cookson and Nick Toczek Pie Corbett Pie Corbett Pie Corbett Pie Corbett Pie Corbett Pie Corbett Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark Louise Finn

Universal Publishing Pty Ltd Penguin Group Hodder Childrens Books Macmillan Childrens Books Macmillan Childrens Books Macmillan Childrens Books Macmillan Childrens Books Macmillan Childrens Books Macmillan Childrens Books Macmillan Childrens Books Macmillan Childrens Books Macmillan Childrens Books Oxford University Press J. Weston Walch, Publisher

1-876170-05-0 0-670-87319-5 0340-893869 0-330-41344-9 978-0-330-37353-1 978-0-330-39132-0 978-0-330-44621-1 978-0-330-48104-5 978-0-330-39902-9 978-0-330-41578-1 978-0-330-43644-1 978-0-330-39870-1 978-0-330-43439-3 0-19-831241-5 0-8251-3804-3

Websites for poems and songs Title

Metrolyrics Lyrics 007

Web address
www.metrolyrics.com www.lyrics007.com
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Content
Song lyrics Song lyrics

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Lyrics Freak Musical English Lessons International Isabels ESL Site ESL Galaxy Songs for Teaching ESL Printables Read Write Think

www.lyricsfreak.com www.musicalenglishlessons.org www.isabelperez.com/songs.htm www.esl-galaxy.com/music.htm www.songsforteaching.com http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=14955 http://www.readwritethink.org/index.asp

Song lyrics Lesson plans based on songs Lesson plans based on songs Lesson plans based on songs Songs written for teaching purposes Worksheets and lesson plans for songs Lesson plans and materials for all kinds of reading and writing, including many on poems and songs. Rubrics also included. Very useful resource.

Web English Teacher Poetry Class Poetry Unit Poetry Zone Poetry Teachers Giggle Poetry Shadow Poetry Language Arts Rhyme Zone The Poetry Archive

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/poetrygeneral.html http://www.poetryclass.net/index.htm http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/spotlight. htm http://www.poetryzone.ndirect.co.uk/index2.htm http://www.poetryteachers.com/ http://www.gigglepoetry.com/ http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/types.html http://engres.ied.edu.hk/lang_arts/lang_arts.html http://www.rhymezone.com/ http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do

Links to lesson plans on poetry UK site about poetry teaching. Resources, links and advice on assessment Whole teaching unit on poetry (designed for native speakers) Large collection of poems by and for children Collection of poems, also help with writing Collection of funny poems for children Definitions and examples of types of poems Materials from HKIEd courses. Many links Dictionary that finds rhyming words Collection of works by well-known poets. Can be searched by topic and has some audio files of poets reading their own works. Quality very high

Poem Hunter

http://www.poemhunter.com/
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Search poems and song lyrics by keyword, title etc.(Not all of

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good quality) Everypoet Poets.org http://www.everypoet.com/index.htm http://www.poets.org/index.php Has archive of poems by famous authors, as well as forums, links and a haiku generator Classical and modern poems, with some audio files of poets reading their own works (not necessarily well.). Can be searched by title, author or topic. Langston Hughes Teacher Resource File http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hughes.htm Edward Lear Home Page Childrens Haiku Garden http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ http://homepage2.nifty.com/haiku-eg/ List of websites about LH, including those with poems. All of Lears limericks and other nonsense poems, with illustrations Haiku written by children from around the world, with their own illustrations

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