The Project has identified many online Repositories of literary texts online, which are grouped here for you reference.
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Multilingual resources
EUROTOOLBOX
Five specially chosen collections of children’s and youth literature from Europe, in the original language (French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian, between 12 and 15 books in each language). The authors and illustrators selected represent some of the very best in children’s book production in these languages.
http://eurolis.wordpress.com/eurotoolbox-3/
http://www.childrensbooksforever.com/childrenpages/Spanish.html
http://www.childrensbooksforever.com/childrenpages/French.html
etc.
Childrens’ stories in a variety of languages
The international poetry festival in Rotterdam has a website with a large number of contemporary poets in many languages, and some have audio and / or video attached:
http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/collection/index/en
http://grandprixpoesie.ratp.fr/
http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SimpleSearchCategory?ids=&langid=&pnum=1&cnum=1&ilangcode=en&ilang=English&text=&lang=Spanish&search=Search
searchable in many languages
http://www.grimmstories.com/
The Grimm fairy tales in many languages
http://www.worldstories.org.uk/
The collection includes retold traditional tales and new short stories in the languages most spoken by UK children.
https://sites.google.com/site/multilingualfamiliesproject/home
The EU Multilingual Families children's eStoryBooks have now been published.
http://www.multilingual-families.eu/repository/for-children
They are specifically designed to motivate children to be learn languages
and be multilingual.
http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/nationalstrategy/primary/pml/index.php?category_id=48
List from the Lancashire primary languages website to a range of books in French suitable for KS2
http://theday.co.uk/ The Day is a subscription service of Current Affairs articles of interest to school students. There is a Languages section.
German
Resources via the Goethe-Institut and other cultural partners, include as examples only:
http://aufdeutsch.co.uk/uber-den-schriftsteller-max-frisch/.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/lhr/stu/ks2/en3113902.htm
http://www.ukgermanconnection.org/?location_id=922
Stories and rhymes
http://www.childrensbooksforever.com/childrenpages/German1.html*
Stories
Struwwelpeter
http://germanstories.vcu.edu/struwwel/vorwort_dict.html
Lessing Fabeln
http://www.udoklinger.de/Deutsch/Fabeln/Lessing.htm
Peter and the wolf with music
http://www.internet-maerchen.de/maerchen/peter.htm
Sources of poems:
http://www.gedichtsuche.de/gedichte-fuer-kinder.html
Lovely site with children's poems divided up by theme (including seasons, Mother's Day, animals, nature, Christmas etc). Although they contain quite complex language, the fact that they are clearly themed mean they would be suitable for (scaffolded) vocabulary and pronunciation work for all ages, as well as acting as prompts for creative tasks, and providing stimulus material for particular times of year.
http://www.aphorismen.de/suche?f_thema=Kind&f_rubrik=Gedichte
Poems not for, but about, children. Searchable by author, and, usefully, time period, which may be of use for teachers of older students, allowing scope for comparative work. Variety of lengths and types, which also allows for comparative work and work on text structure etc.
http://www.schule-und-familie.de/gedichte-fuer-kinder.html
Attractive and well organised site with a large bank of poems for children, divided very usefully into groups 'for every occasion' including birthdays, Valentine's Day, Christmas, Easter etc, as well as some which would support cultural work about Germany, including advent, 'Nikolaus' 'Fasching', 'Namenstag', 'Pfingsten' etc. A particularly nice section on the start of school, including poems about the German 'Schultuete' which could be used for start of term activities.
http://www.heilpaedagogik-info.de/kinder/gedichte.html
Lovely site with large bank of children's poems, divided by theme, (seasons, animals etc). Each poem has information in simple German about the author and links to further information, and some have a Youtube link showing the poem as video or slide show. Some of the poems are in fact puzzles or riddles, and there is also a particularly nice section on 'Abzaehlreime' (counting rhymes).
http://www.kinder-alles-fuer-kids.com/kinder-gedichte/kurze-kindergedichte.html
Recommended by @BablakeMFL
Counting rhymes
http://blogs.transparent.com/german/german-counting-rhymes-abzahlreime/
Kinderreime
http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa030414a.htm
http://www.educreuse23.ac-limoges.fr/elve/peda/supports/compt/comptall.htm
German rhymes
http://www.gedichte-fuer-alle-faelle.de/kindergedichte/
http://www.kinder-alles-fuer-kids.com/kinder-gedichte/kinder-gedichte.html
http://deutschlich.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/mit-gedichten-deutsch-lernen/
this claimed Mit Gedichten Deutsch lernen.
- a really big site with videos about famous Germans and tutorials about how to compose a poem, among other things. My impression is that the material could better be used with more advanced students.
https://www.bildungsserver.com/inhalt.php?rnr=281&bisb=59c6dd58ea76497dcf91349084669cb9
http://vs-material.wegerer.at/deutsch/d_gedicht.htm
http://www.schulzens.de/Grundschule/Allgemeines/Gedichte_1/gedichte_1.html
- 9 collections
http://gedichte.xbib.de/dichtergalerie_1.html
Deutsche Dichterinnen und Dichter der vergangenen acht Jahrhunderte,
Jokes, songs, tonguetwisters, slang
http://leicht-deutsch-lernen.com/jokes
Songs / Kinderlieder
http://www.deutschlern.net/index.php?module=curs&link=cindex&show=941
http://www.listwoo.com/top-ten-german-international-hit-songs/
What I love about this site is the interactivity. This would be a brilliant ICT room lesson where you could get students to listen to all the songs, write their own (brief) reviews and then vote for their favourites. It would be brilliant to take a screen-shot at the start of the lesson and then see at the end how much their votes have affected the overall scores.
http://www.vistawide.com/german/german_music/kinderlieder/kinderlieder.htm
http://www.onlylyrics.com/top-videos-german.php
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/prj/pop/son/enindex.htm
What’s great about this site is that it is updated, so new songs feature all the time, introducing students to new artists they haven’t heard of and bringing them up to date with German music. The site also has downloadable resources for teachers, making it easy to bring these fun activities straight into the classroom. The video links will be much appreciated by students as they bring the songs to life and provide an opportunity for reflecting on the cultural aspects of the music – how do the singers and groups present themselves? Is this the same as music videos students have seen in English or other languages? Why? How is it the same or how is it different?
http://www.mamalisa.com/?lang=German&t=fl
http://www.herbert-fritz.de/kinderlieder_framefree.html
This site gives the text of many well-known folk songs, such as Grün, grün, grün, which I have used with Y7 beginners, when they are learning the colours. However, personally I would rather go to YouTube, where you can find the song, the text and visuals, whereas this site only gives text and melody. It seems quite a comprehensive list though, so might be a useful starting point, if one were looking for a song. Many songs contain language which is not too difficult or could easily be adapted.
http://ingeb.org/kinderli.html
Comprehensive, if a little dated in appearance, collection of traditional (and some obscure!) German children's songs and rhymes, many with sound file and sheet music. Searchable alphabetically. Could be used for pronunciation practice with all ages, and would provide plenty of material for older students learning about rhyme, text construction etc, as many of the songs work well as poems too.
German folk songs
http://ingeb.org/
http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/Volksoam.html
Periodicals
http://www.vistawide.com/german/german_periodicals.htm
French
Resources via the French Embassy and other cultural partners, include as examples only:
http://culturetheque.org.uk/read
This includes:
http://culturetheque.org.uk/learn/for-the-classroom?mode=all
http://culturetheque.org.uk/read/classics/25259-le-petit-prince
http://culturetheque.bibliovox.com/book/45000224
http://culturetheque.org.uk/read/comic-books
Access to classic French bandes dessinées
and new in 2015 :
French eBooks
French classics have come to town! A mingle with Molière or breakfast with Baudelaire…invite the power of the plume to your eBook collection. Flick through the history of French classics from the comfort of your computer or tablet. Don't forget to sign up for free access http://culturetheque.org.uk/profile/sign-up
French eBooks
French classics have come to town! A mingle with Molière or breakfast with Baudelaire…invite the power of the plume to your eBook collection. Flick through the history of French classics from the comfort of your computer or tablet. Don't forget to sign up for free access.
http://culturetheque.org.uk/profile/sign-up
Notre-Dame de Paris – 1482
Victor Hugo, 1831, eBook
Originally written to admire the beauty of Gothic architecture. Throw away those Disney preconceptions and stick to the classic.
Les Trois Mousquetaires
Alexandre Dumas, 1844, eBook
Tous pour un, un pour tous! Sword at the ready, it's time to link arms and run through the streets of Paris with the ever-bound Musketeers.
More, more, more!
French classics, eBooks
Calling all bookworms, speedy-readers and bibliophiles. If you just can't get enough, click here to gaze at our glorious collection. Bonne lecture.
The online magazine VousNousIls - ''emag de l'education offers downloadable pdfs of classic French literary texts used in the French school curriculum, organised by themes:
http://www.vousnousils.fr/ebooks-gratuits/ebooks-telecharger-dossiers-thematiques-litterature
http://fr.tintin.com/
has documents pedagogiques with non-fiction info, free to subscribe
http://www.topito.com/top-des-injures-du-capitaine-haddock
The top classic insults of Capitaine Haddock from Tintin
http://culturetheque.org.uk/read/children-books?mode=all
http://culturetheque.org.uk/read/e-books/19361-paysages-negro-indiens-aux-enfants-de-guyane
http://fr.slideshare.net/alicemnieto/le-petit-nicolas-et-les-copains
Institut français de l‘Ecosse : Ressources en ligne pour professeurs de français
http://www.ifecosse.org.uk/IMG/doc/La_redaction_de_Bernard_Friot-2.doc
http://poesie.tableau-noir.net/pages11/telechargementecole.html
http://ww2.ac-poitiers.fr/ia17-pedagogie/IMG/pdf/fiche_defi_homme_de_couleur.pdf
http://www.teteamodeler.com/vip2/nouveaux/expression/fiche147a.htm
The Alliance Française site with ideas for songs and texts is http://cavilamenligne.com/
French national Education website
offers poems on themes linked to the French curriculum:
e.g. Animals
Jacques Prévert : Les Animaux ont du Souci
Complainte du petit cheval blanc de Paul Fort – Poésie animaux – cycle 3 : ce2 cm1 cm2
http://www.pass-education.fr/poesie-scolaire-sur-le-theme-les-animaux-complainte-du-petit-cheval-blanc-de-paul-fort/
Nos animaux de Virginie Fournier – Poésie animaux – cycle 3 : ce2 cm1 cm2
http://www.pass-education.fr/poesie-scolaire-sur-le-theme-les-animaux-nos-animaux-de-virginie-fournier/
Lapins de Théodore de Banville
http://www.pass-education.fr/poesie-scolaire-sur-le-theme-les-animaux-lapins-de-theodore-de-banville/
Un vieux lapin de Jean Richepin
http://www.pass-education.fr/poesie-scolaire-sur-le-theme-les-animaux-un-vieux-lapin-de-jean-richepin/
Plein ciel de Jules Supervielle – Poésie animaux – cycle 3 : ce2 cm1 cm2
http://www.pass-education.fr/poesie-scolaire-sur-le-theme-les-animaux-plein-ciel-de-jules-supervielle/
Le léopard de Robert Desnos – Poésie animaux – cycle 3 : ce2 cm1 cm2
http://www.pass-education.fr/poesie-scolaire-sur-le-theme-les-animaux-le-leopard-de-robert-desnos/
Le corbeau et le renard de Jean de la Fontaine – Poésie animaux – cycle 3 : ce2 cm1 cm2
http://www.pass-education.fr/poesie-scolaire-sur-le-theme-les-animaux-le-corbeau-et-le-renard-de-jean-de-la-fontaine/
Le chat et l’oiseau de Jacques Prévert – Poésie animaux – cycle 3 : ce2 cm1 cm2
http://www.pass-education.fr/poesie-scolaire-sur-le-theme-les-animaux-le-chat-et-loiseau-de-jacques-prevert/
Chanson des oiseaux de Victor Hugo
Les oisillons de François Fabié
http://www.pass-education.fr/poesie-scolaire-sur-le-theme-les-animaux-les-oisillons-de-francois-fabie/
French national Education website
offers scenes from plays:
e.g. Molière Le bourgeois gentilhomme
http://www.pass-education.fr/le-bourgeois-gentilhomme-moliere-cm1-cm2-arts-du-langage-histoire-des-arts-cycle-3/
Scene where M Jourdain learns about vowels and sounds
Also here in film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghcHAsRoY5U
Le malade imaginaire
http://www.pass-education.fr/le-malade-imaginaire-moliere-cm1-cm2-arts-du-langage-histoire-des-arts-cycle-3/
Other classics
http://www.inlibroveritas.net/oeuvres/2516/lettres-de-mon-moulin
French national Education website
offers Stories:
Conte: Le chat botté (Puss in Boots) – Charles Perrault
http://www.pass-education.fr/le-chat-botte-charles-perrault-conte-ce2-cm1-arts-du-langage-histoire-des-arts-cycle-3/
NB written in the Past Historic
Conte: Les fées - Perrault
http://www.pass-education.fr/les-fees-charles-perrault-conte-cm1-cm2-arts-du-langage-histoire-des-arts-cycle-3/
Conte : Peau d’âne – Charles Perrault
http://www.pass-education.fr/peau-dane-charles-perrault-conte-cm1-cm2-arts-du-langage-histoire-des-arts-cycle-3/
Fable : La cigale et la fourmi – Jean de la Fontaine
http://www.pass-education.fr/la-cigale-et-la-fourmi-jean-de-la-fontaine-cm1-cm2-arts-du-langage-histoire-des-arts-cycle-3/
Fable : Le renard et le bouc – Jean de la Fontaine
http://www.pass-education.fr/le-renard-et-le-bouc-jean-de-la-fontaine-cm1-cm2-arts-du-langage-histoire-des-arts-cycle-3/
French comptines – traditional children’s rhymes often with actions and so highly interactive
Sample French comptines / songs with actions etc.
Pomme de reinette et pomme d’api
Mes petites mains font tap tap tap
Tape, tape petites mains
Mes p’tites mains tapent, tapent
Mon pouce
Voici ma main
Pomme, pêche, poire
Une souris verte
Marie, trempe ton pain
J’aime la galette
Le visage
Je te tiens, tu me tiens ..
Ma tante vend des pommes
Je fais un pas en avant
Il était un petit chat
Meunier, tu dors
La famille Tortue
Un, deux, trois
Le fermier et le lapin
Un grand cerf
Une poule sur un mur
http://www.petitestetes.com/jeux-educatifs-en-ligne/comptines-et-chansons/comptines-video/comptine-video-savez-vous-planter-les-choux.html
This site shows French children doing the actions to songs which are heard in sound only. There are 12 in all.
http://comptines.tv/
www.comptines.net/discotheque/
http://www.mondedespetits.fr/comptine.php
http://www.momes.net/comptines/comptines-chansons.html - lyrics only
http://www.momes.net/comptines/comptines-nourritures.html
http://www.comptinesanimees.com/ -
This site has animations, vocal accompaniment and subtitles, but is difficult to navigate .
It features comptines in French, Spanish, Italian, It also has a section of La Fontaine fables.
http://www.chatouiller.fr/comptines-enfants-gratuit-tout-petit
Many of the most popular comptines are available on YouTube.
Stories
http://www.iletaitunehistoire.com/genres/contes-legendes
a lot of stories in French, illustrated, and from various cultures
http://www.iletaitunehistoire.com/genres/fables-poesies
http://www.iletaitunehistoire.com/genres/documentaires
non-fiction texts from around the world and from history
http://www.iletaitunehistoire.com/genres/albums-histoires
Fables
La Fontaine – fables:
http://www.la-fontaine-ch-thierry.net/fables.htm
includes:
Toutes les fables: vidéo - animations
http://images.google.fr/imgres?imgurl=http://images.jedessine.com/_uploads/_tiny_galerie/20091250/fables-lafontaine-source_bx2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jedessine.com/r_1904/videos&usg=__qqTjpC6fjxJx7qcMIhaCk3jwaVQ=&h=360&w=470&sz=43&hl=fr&start=29&itbs=1&tbnid=vkOV7fdnCUzUhM:&tbnh=99&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsaint%2Bvalentin%2Bjean%2Bde%2Bla%2Bfontaine%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Dfr%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:fr:official%26sa%3DN%26start%3D18
Audio files here:
http://www.litteratureaudio.com/livre-audio-gratuit-mp3/la-fontaine-jean-de-fables-selection.html
Fairy tales
Perrault –
http://clpav.fr/lecture-cendrillon.htm
also
Barbe Bleue
Petit Chaperon Rouge
Le Chat Botté
Les Fées
Peau d'âne
Le Petit Poucet
Les Souhaits Ridicules
Famous poets
Guillaume Appollinaire
http://www.guillaume-apollinaire.fr/bestiaire.htm
http://www.guillaume-apollinaire.fr/calligrammes.htm
http://www.poetica.fr/poeme-123/guillaume-apollinaire-dromadaire/
Baudelaire
Thierry Henry reading Elevation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFWHAnVudZI
Ronsard
Poésie : Sonnet à Hélène – Pierre de Ronsard
Du Bellay
Poésie : Heureux qui comme Ulysse – Joachim du Bellay
Verlaine
http://www.poetica.fr/poeme-198/paul-verlaine-dame-souris-trotte/
Nerval
http://www.poetica.fr/categories/gerard-de-nerval/
Poems by theme
http://poesie.webnet.fr/vospoemes/coups_de_coeur.php
This site features poems recommended by readers. What I really liked was the fact that the poems were recommended by age-group, so you could see at a glance which poems might be suitable for young people. You could also see which poems had been recommended when, so if you used the site regularly, you would be able to spot which were poems newly added.
La ville en poesie
http://www.ac-orleans-tours.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/ia28/doc_peda/MDL/actions/poesie/Banques/La_ville_en_poesie.htm#Aller_en_ville
War poetry
http://www.cndp.fr/poetes-en-resistance/accueil.html
This website explores the works of French poets during the second world war. including
• Aragon
• Cadou
• Cassou
• Char
• Cohn
• Desnos
• Éluard
• Seghers
• Tavernier
There is for example the whole text of Éluard's « Liberté » with Questions and the Fernand Léger picture inspired by the poem.
Other poems
http://www.poesies-de-notre-enfance.ac-versailles.fr/Presentation-du-projet
' les poésies de notre enfance en musique'
L’été - Anne Marie Chapouton
http://janetlloyd.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/french-poem-painting-of-summers-day.html
Déjeuner du matin – Jacques Prévert
http://janetlloyd.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/a-taste-of-great-literaturedrama-and.html
http://poesie.webnet.fr/vospoemes/poemes/myriam_barry/un_monde_meilleur.html
http://www.poetica.fr/poeme-233/winston-perez-sonnet-pour-un-cheval/
http://ecolestexupery.pagesperso-orange.fr/po%E9sie/textes/poesies9.html
http://www.mespetitsbonheurs.com/poesies-ete-fruits-rouges-papillons-mer-crabe-soleil/
http://ecprim.lefuilet.free.fr/poesies.htm
http://www.paperblog.fr/4623970/le-rap-des-rats-michel-besnier/
Le cancre
http://www.ec-epiais-rhus.ac-versailles.fr/cycle3/annee20092010/poesies/Le%20cancre%20Jacques%20pr%E9vert.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE0Jrg-nZk0
or http://education.francetv.fr/videos/le-cancre-v113784
http://dlpc.jimdo.com/niveaux/ce1/po%C3%A9sie-ce1/
This site includes the popular 'crayons de couleur'
Videos made in response to poems etc., e.g.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfvsWWDGpUnKD_xQZgIm9MA/videos
Victor Hugo Demain, dès l'aube
Rimbaud Ma bohème
Apollinaire La chanson du mal aimé
Rimbaud Le dormeur du val
Ch Perrault Le petit Chaperon Rouge
Un éléphant, ça trompe énormément
http://www.lesvoixdelapoesie.com/poemes
'Feuilletez notre anthologie pour lire les poèmes admissibles au concours Les voix de la poésie et pour connaître les biographies de leurs auteurs. Une fois vos poèmes préférés choisis, consultez nos conseils pratiques pour les apprendre par cœur.'
TV5 monde
http://www.tv5monde.com/
Chaine internationale francophone – ressources développées par le CAVILAM, AF de Bruxelles et l’Université Catholique de Louvain
Cliquez sur la section Langue française :
· la bibliothèque numérique « Plus de 300 livres de littérature francophone, accessibles gratuitement en version numérique »
· Apprendre le français : « Des centaines d'exercices gratuits, classés selon votre niveau et disponibles en 8 langues » - exercices réalisable en autonomie – pas de progression en tant que telle, on peut faire son propre parcours. Niveaux : A1 à B2
· Enseigner le français « Des fiches pédagogiques élaborées par des experts à partir des émissions de la chaîne ». Niveaux : de A1 à C1
· Parlons français, c’est facile ! Exercices, jeux défis, mémo culturels, de grammaire etc. « Comme au cinéma, laissez-vous porter par les webdocs et découvrez la vie en France à travers le regard de quatre personnages. Au cours de cette promenade, des ateliers et des jeux vous permettront de comprendre, d’apprendre, et de pratiquer le français »
· 7 jours sur la planète : actualité – contenu disponible 2 semaines mais certains dossiers restent en ligne plus longtemps (par ex. je suis Charlie). Certains dossiers/activités peuvent être téléchargés
News stories / reports
http://1jour1actu.com/
News website for children
http://www1.rfi.fr/lffr/statiques/accueil_apprendre.asp
Section Langue française : Le journal en français facile « Un journal qui présente l'actualité avec des mots simples et explique les événements dans leur contexte ».
Tonguetwisters
http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/fr.htm
Dictons etc.
http://www.lepetitrobert.fr/curiosites/des-proverbes-et-des-dictons
http://www.charliehebdo.fr/dicton-du-jour.html
http://www.lapunaise.fr/
modern dictons
http://www.ephemeride-jour.fr/almanach/citation.php
Citation du jour, expression, dicton
Proverbs and expressions
http://www.mon-poeme.fr/proverbes-expressions-francaises/
http://www.unproverbe.com/
From multiple cultures
Songs
Base de données de 25000 chansons pour étudier le français. (Mise à jour le 1er novembre 2014, avec de nombreux ajouts ou remplacement de vidéos en cours.
ADAMO ALIZÉE ANAÏS ANDREX ANGE ANGGUN ANNEGARN ANTOINE AUBERT AZNAVOUR BARBARA BARDOT BASHUNG BENT BERRY BIOLAY BIRKIN BRASSENS BREL BRIGITTE BRUEL BRUNI BÉNABAR CABREL CALI CALOGERO CAMILLE CHERHAL CLERC COUTURE C. DAHO DALIDA DANI DE PALMAS DION C. DORÉ J. DUTRONC J. DUTRONC T. ELSA ENZO ENZO FABIAN FARAH FERRER N. FONTAINE FRÉGÉ GAINSBOURG S. GALL F. GRÉCO GRÉGOIRE H HALLYDAY J. HARDY INDOCHINE INNOCENTS JENIFER JONATHAN J. KATERINE KYO LOIZEAU LOUISE ATTAQUE LUCE R. M M POKORA MATHIEU M. MAURANE MAÉ MISTINGUETT MITCHELL MONTAND MOZART, L'OPÉRA ROCK NOAH NOUGARO OBISPO PAGNY PARADIS PARIS COMBO PERRET PIAF POLNAREFF RITA MITSOUKO SALVADOR SARDOU SHY'M SIMON É. SOUCHON A. ST-PIER N. STROMAE SUPERBUS SYLVA TAL TELL THIÉFAINE TRÉNET TÉLÉPHONE VARTAN VIAN VOISINE VOULZY YELLE ZAZIE
Clips Video + paroles
http://frenchteachernet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/four-great-francis-cabrel-songs-for.html
Francis Cabrel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yI75QDF_8k
Heureux qui comme Ulysse - modern version + words on screen
Spanish
Poems
http://www.webcrawler.com/info.wbcrwl.stoolfefbar/search/video?q=Poems%20In%20Spanish
http://www.spanish-learning-corner.com/short-spanish-poems.html
http://www.donquijote.org/spanishlanguage/love/poems
http://spanishpoems.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.poetrytranslation.org/poems/filter/language/Spanish
http://guides.temple.edu/content.php?pid=6879&sid=1792458
http://judithpordon.tripod.com/poetry/id130.html
Look for poemas en español
This site has some very accessible poems and with the English alongside, makes for a useful website to work on translation skills. Students could translate the poems for themselves and then check their translation with the official translation.
http://panamapoesia.com/ninos.htm
http://antologiapoeticamultimedia.blogspot.co.uk/p/contacto.html
Una selección de poemas musicados, cantados o recitados para su trabajo en las aulas
with soundfiles
http://www.poesi.as/
This website has a nice aleatorio feature - click and discover an unexpected poem!
http://www.poemas-del-alma.com
http://www.yoyita.com/poema_iv.htm
Spanish rhymes
http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=sc&p=533&c=71
Stories
CUENTOS INFANTILES
http://pacomova.eresmas.net/
http://www.cuentosparachicos.com/ESP/fabulas/index.htm
http://cuentosparadormir.com/
maybe dormir is not the objective!
Songs
EL RINCÓN DE LOS VILLANCICOS
TODO LO QUE SOBRE VILLANCICOS PODRÍAS ENCONTRAR EN INTERNET RECOGIDO EN UNA SOLA WEB
http://perso.wanadoo.es/villancicos/
http://www.mamalisa.com/?lang=Spanish&t=fl
http://marcoele.com/actividades/canciones/
Website for Spanish as a foreign language – worksheets and activities connected to Spanish contemporary music
http://www.pacomova.es/poesias/animales/una_sardina_dos_sardinas.htm
Riddles
http://www.adivinancero.com/
http://adivinanzas.chiquipedia.com/
http://www.bme.es/peques/ELBUSINFANTIL/MATERIALES/ADIVINANZAS/ENTRA.htm
Tonguewisters
http://www.elhuevodechocolate.com/trabale/trabale2.htm
http://pacomova.eresmas.net/paginas/trabalenguas1.htm
http://trabalenguas.chiquipedia.com/
Comic strips
Some examples of Mafalda and accompanying information here:
ww.albeos.org/IMG/pdf/Mafalda_tiras.pdf
Lots of stuff
http://www.spanishwithjudith.com/spanish-for-kids.html
extensive links including
poetry
stories
riddles
tonguetwisters
songs
film trailers
http://www.doslourdes.net/poes%EDas_para_ni%F1os.htm
Lots of interesting poem texts and fables here
Janet Lloyd's discoveries:
http://janetlloyd.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/new-spanish-books-and-reasons-i.html?m=1