http://www.abcteach.com/free/h/howto_cinquain.pdf
This is a nicely explained resource for writing cinquains.
http://www.alcor.com.au/french_rhyming_dictionary.asp
French online rhyming dictionary, in which you can specify the number of rhyming letters desired.
http://bbfrenchtranslation.com/prosody-in-french-translation.html
This helps clarify differences in English and French prosody.
http://ecprim.lefuilet.free.fr/
If you type in a letter of the alphabet and then
.htm
after the forward slash in this web address, you will get a variety of poems by authors whose last name begins with that letter. For example, for a poem by André Breton, type http://ecprim.lefuilet.free.fr/b.htm. These poems are great to use in the classroom, as they are compiled on a blog for parents, teacher, and students at a public elementary school in France.
http://www.etudes-litteraires.com/prosodie.php
A great resource for a French explanation of prosody, including details and analysis concerning the different meanings certain vowel and consonant sounds generally convey in French.
http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.com/pdf/ca/geddes.pdf
A comprehensive glossary of poetic terms.
http://homepage.smc.edu/meeks_christopher/SOUND%20DEVICES%20USED%20IN%20POETRY.htm
Another helpful glossary of sound device terms.
http://www.ielanguages.com/frenchphonetics.html
Useful resource when addressing and introducing words with similar sounds but different spellings in French.
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Rhyme
Explanation of rhyme, including difference between rhyme in English and rhyme in French.
http://www.poesiefrancophone.com/conseils_prosodie.htm
French explanations of prosody and poem forms.
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do
This website is chock full of information, including lots of poems, information on poets, a section for teachers and one for students, historic recordings of great poetry, and an expansive glossary of poetic terms. Although it does not address French poets, it has a feature with which one can browse poems by form or theme, which can help the teacher get examples to increase his or her own understanding.
http://phonologique.wikispaces.com/
A Slideshare slideshow resource on French and phonics.
http://www.poesie.net/enfants/index.html
French website where children submit their own poetry. It is interactive and playful and full of great, simple poetry examples for our students!
http://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/formsofverse/furtherreading/page2.html
Great, detailed breakdown of different types of rhyme.
http://www.sc.mahidol.ac.th/sclg/sllt/Constructivism__singhanart_.pdf
The section on "Characteristics of Constructivism" gives a nice bulleted list that supports what we are doing in this unit.
http://www.suite101.com/content/poetry-in-foreign-language-classes-a44904
Here are examples and explanations of the poem formats treated in this unit.
http://theapple.monster.com/training/articles/2785-3-5-finding-rhyming-words-in-a-french-poem
This is lesson plan for finding rhyming words in French poetry. Notable is something done in the shared reading section. Although I have used color-coded cards to show different rhyme sound endings and to make posters gathering these sound words, what I haven't done is what is suggested in step 8, that the teacher associate a color with a word sound and actually
replace
the letters with just the color, to further drive the correlation home.
http://troispetitstours.over-blog.com/article-22486263.html
A French collection of children's songs and poems themed around food vocabulary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_poetry
Although clearly not the final source for anything, I find the information about French poetry explained quite clearly; this can help give a surface knowledge that helps determine what to research further.
/curriculum/units/2009/2/09.02.06.x.html
This is a curriculum unit I wrote a couple years back that is relevant to the current unit, called "Poetry and Differentiated Instruction in the Middle-School French Classroom.
/curriculum/units/2003/3/03.03.05.x.html
A language arts teacher at my school wrote this curriculum unit, called "Making Connections Across the Curriculum through Poetry." There is great information here as well as an idea of how you can collaborate with your language arts teachers.
/curriculum/units/2003/3/03.03.04.x.html
Another curriculum unit offering explanations of different poem forms and ideas about teaching poetry, called "Presenting Poetry to Children: Poems that Delight and Excite to Write!"
