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Get ready to read poetry! World poetry day is March 21. Here are a lot of lesson plans and ideas for that day including some digital e-poetry booklets that you could download as well as mp3's and videos that you can use as well as lesson plans.

The poetry Foundation site is a great place to find poems and information about the world's most famous poets Also, download the poetry Foundation App for iPhone and Android handsets at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/mobile/ to get a great collection of poetry and information to use in your class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

Poetry Foundation announces Poetry Learning Lab

These are just a very few examples of different types of poetry. Most of the definitions have at least one example of each particular type of poetry for better understanding.

16 resources for national poetry month

This activity is targeted to the critical analysis and construction of understanding of war poetry.  The tasks involve developing an understanding of the effects that warfare has on the individual soldier as a snapshot of the battle experience that most men experienced during the brutal trench war conflicts of the first world war.

An English resource that takes students through writing four different types of poetry. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

A great poetry site for children. See poems on a range of topics and most poems have an audio of the poet reading their poems. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

online poetry anthology, from well known and not so well known writers

A nice downloadable resource to teach students about Haiku. (via TES)

A poem a day for American high schools Poet Laureate Billy Collins

Newspaper + Marker = Poetry. Grab a marker and a newspaper, black out the words you don't need, and share your poem here.

"A superb resource for learning poets at primary schools. Record pupils reading the beautifully illustrated poems and listen back to them."

Upload your Charles Dickens lessons and resources in this competition to submit the best resources. This is a UK competition, but perhaps some others may want to enter as well. I also wanted to include this because of the great list of Charles Dickens resources here. If you teach Great Expectations or any other Dickens classic, you'll want to download these free lesson plans and resources. To be eligible for the Charles Dickens / Literary Heritage competition, all lesson plans & teaching resources shared must only cater for texts by authors found in the literary heritage section of the Secondary English National Curriculum, or from current GCSE & A Level awarding body specifications for English. Your can submit resources for poetry, prose or drama texts (or all three!) across the relevant key stage. At GCSE and A Level, resources can be submitted to support teaching and learning of controlled assessment and / or examination units. When you upload resources for entry to the competition, please take care to tag and classify your resources accurately in the relevant key stage, topic and sub topic areas. For example: