1. Poetry:
4th Grade Unit
Tara Rice
Spring 2014

2. Technology Integration
 Poetry can be a meaningful and vital
experience for helping students learn
to express their emotions and ideas
through writing. Studying poetry allows
students to critically think and analyze
various forms of figurative language.
 By integrating technology into a poetry
unit, students will be provided with the
opportunity to use online blogs,
podcasts, videos, and other interactive
technological experiences to enhance
their understanding and become
engaged in learning.

3. Internet Content
 The internet provides many sources of relevant and
helpful information related to poetry that can easily be
used within a 4th grade unit
 This presentation will include various reliable online
sources related to the topic of poetry

4. Blog
 Mrs. Warner provides a website and blog for her 4th
grade classroom. She offers a great post on poetry
which includes tons of resources of various types of
poems which can be implemented in a 4th grade poetry
unit!

5. Podcast
 Poem of the Day is a Podcast available for free on
iTunes which provide classic and contemporary poems
each day read aloud by poets and actors.
 Teachers can use this Podcast in the classroom to
allow students to hear different poems from day to day!
This can also lead into a group discussion or a quick
group activity. Teachers can pick and choose
numerous poems which are appropriate for the
classroom.

6. YouTube
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRTT-ZEqPlU
 YouTube can provide students with videos of poems
read aloud with pictures and background music to help
display a poem in an engaging way

7. Internet Resources
 Poetry Foundation:
 Provides various poems, poetry news, videos, articles etc.
which can be used throughout a poetry unit
 Readworks.org
 provides teachers with unit ideas, lessons, reading passages,
and worksheets that are all aligned to the CCSS.
 ReadWriteThink.org
 Readwritethink.org provides teachers with tons of resources
regarding an entire month long poetry unit! Lesson plans,
classroom activities, and other technological resources are
available

8. Kidspiration

9. Teaching Materials
 Scholastic provides
over 400 various
printable poetry
worksheets!
 Here is an example of
a poetry worksheet
which students can
complete to
strengthen their
descriptive writing
among poems.

10. Teaching Materials
 iFridge Poet is an app
which can be used on
iPads or iPod touches
to allow students to
create their own
magnetic fridge
poetry!
 Students will be able
to compose their own
creative phrases and
poems through this
engaging
technological
resource

11. Teaching Materials
 Pinterest
provides
teachers with
various
resources and
links to
numerous
websites for
enriching
activities,
lesson plans,
and other
creative
classroom
possibilities.

12. Teaching Materials
 Readwritethink.org
provides a lesson plan and
activity to help students
create their own acrostic
poems

13. Subject-specific Internet-based
Resources
 Edsitement:
 Provides many lesson plans and activities for various
subjects which can be implemented in classrooms K-12
 Example: Can You Haiku? Lesson Plan and Activities

14. Uses of the Internet:
Online Archives
 The Children’s Poetry Archive:
 Allows students to search various topics and read many
corresponding poems!
 PBS:
 PBS.org provides a collection of poems written by kids.
Students are also able to write and publish their own
poems through the website

15. Uses of the Internet:
Interactive Sources
 Scholastic Poetry Idea Engine:
 Scholastic provides an online poem generator (which is
also compatible for Smartboards) for an engaging
opportunity for students to produce all types of poems!

16. Web 2.0
 Game classroom provides different language arts and
math games, lessons, and worksheets for collaboration
in the classroom!
 The thesaurus game can help 4th graders strengthen
their vocabulary and produce more descriptive poems!

17. Slideshare