Poetry Idea Engine

Fun and interactive. This site encourages students to work on Haiku, Cinquain, Limerick or Free Verse. It give support and explaination of what each type of poetry is.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/poetry_engine.htm

Haiku

Haiku Gallery

Go here to read Haiku from students

http://haikugallery.com/

Haiku for People

http://toyomasu.com/haiku/

Limericks

Poetry-Online

A collection of Limericks

http://poetry-online.org/limericks.htm

M-Limerick

How to write a limerick

http://dltk-holidays.com/patrick/m-limerick.htm

Instant Poetry Forms

http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm 

Magnetic Poetry Kits - fun for SB and centers

http://kids.magpogames.com/playonline.cfm

http://tranquillpoet.com/

A text editor for poems with tools including rhyme helper and syllable count.

 I know several of you have been teaching units or plan to teach poetry units. This is a tool that you may find beneficial to help students with counting syllables and rhyming  scheme. As students type their poetry into the text box Tranquity counts the syllables on the left and on the right it suggest rhyming words as they type.