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This category contains 15 sites:

• Barking Spiders (and Other Such Stuff) - Collection of poetry and short stories by children's author, C.J. Heck. Also contains mazes and tongue twisters.
• BBC Education - Listen & Write: Main Menu - Lets kids listen to examples of different styles of poetry and provides tips on using similes and the thesaurus.
• Children's Poetry - Selected works from Edward Lear, Dr. Seuss, and Robert Louis Stevenson.
• Forms of Poetry - Gives brief explanations of several forms of poetry and provides examples of each. Provides links for further information and writing tips.
• Funny Poems For Kids - Funny poems, riddles, jokes, and tongue twisters.
• Giggle Poetry - Explains how to write poems, offers contests for young writers, features interviews with poets, and includes an assortment of poems for kids to read and rate.
• Jan Dean's Poetry Zoo - Filled with poems, stories and resources. Also includes material for teachers.
• Mama Lisa's World - An archive of nursery rhymes and children's songs from all over the world.
• Ongoing Tales Old-Time Poetry - Collection of illustrated classic poems for children.
• Poems from the Pad - This site contains a collection of poetry written by the 6Yellow team (FROGS) for Mr. Gunn's Reading Writing Workshop class. There is one poem from each student in the class.
• Poetry for Kids - Features poetry for kids about animals, weather, and aliens.
• Poetryexpress - Offers help with writing poems and provides a place to share and revise poetry works in progress.
• Quick and Dirty Guide to Reading Poetry - An English professor offers students some down-to-earth how-to advice on tackling poetry.
• The Academy of American Poets - Searchable index of poems and poet biographies. Also includes audio files of works read by the author.
• The Poetry Zone - An interactive poetry website for children. It also contains poems by well-known children's poets and a wealth of educational material for teachers.