Giggle Poetry is a creative website that can be used as a resource for adults to find poetry and rhyming activities to help strengthen phonological awareness, reading, writing and expressive language skills. There are several main components to the site, including Poetry Class, Poetry Fun and Poetry Theater. Poetry Class has instructions about how to write certain types of poems, such as "Dream Poems" or "Sound Poems". Poetry Fun has short games/activities, including riddles, tongue twisters, and fill-in-the-blank poems. Poetry Theater has short plays children can perform together. In general, the content and design in the site are humorous and playful, which would be appealing to children. However, some of the themes (Smoker's Epitaph Poems) may be considered age-inappropriate. The site has many advertisements and the pages are crowded and somewhat distracting. Additionally, the instructions for many of the activities, especially in Poetry Class, are long and multi-stepped, and seem more appropriate for parents or teachers to follow and then teach to the student. Given some of the questionable content and the visual distractions, this site is best used as a resource for parents to pick out appropriate activities to do with their children, either on the site or to print and do without the computer.

• Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
• Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
• Presents educational concepts accurately
• Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
• Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
• Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
• Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
• Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Has a free or trial version
• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
• Multiple users can save a profile
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can play without sound and not distract others
• Students can save work between sessions
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Requires registration before using the first time
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use