Poetry
General resources
The Poetry Society -- Education page
Poetry Pathfinders -- separate pages for K&G1, G2, G3, G4, and G5
Types of poetry (the Shadow Poetry website)
Poetry Forge -- tools for teaching poetry
Poem posters to download
London Poems on the Underground
Poems for... (a Hyphen-21 project) - A3 downloadable poems (free but registration required)
Poets
Books in our library
(found in the 800's of the Dewey Decimal System)
Audio
Jon Scieszka reading an excerpt from his "Science Verse"
Poetry Out Loud archive -- famous people reading famous poems - with brief introductions about how to read poetry aloud - e.g., Anthony Hopkins reading "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".....
Poems on the Underground -- various -- streamed audio
Video
Michael Rosen performing his poetry
All the poems from "The Hypnotiser" - including:
Michael Rosen channel on YouTube
Shel Silverstein channel on YouTube - various animations, e.g.,
"Backward Bill" poem
"The Toy Eater" poem
"The Thought Fox" by Ted Hughes
"If" by Rudyard Kipling - animated typography & voice
Animated poetry videos from The Poetry Foundation
Billy Collins -- animated poems -- YouTube channel
Roger McGough reading a few poems
Allan Ahlberg reading a few poems
Steven Herrick performing his poetry
TextFlows -- an innovative way to read poetry online -- here is the full list of texts available -- e.g., watch/read Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"
Comedy from the BBC: Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry discuss poetry: "The Suitable Poetry" sketch