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Your Dictionary: Teach Kids How to Write Haiku

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article defines Haiku poetry and offers a step-by-step method of teaching students to write a Hailu and ideas for publication when they are completed.
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TES Global

Tes: Forms of Poetry

For Teachers 5th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] These Several lessons provide students with an understanding with different types of writing forms: calligram, cinquain, diamante, haiku, and narrative.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Poetic Form and Structure

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This online lesson makes use of concrete poems to teach the structure and form of poetry. Uses a "Columbus Day," theme for the lesson, but can be used any time of the year.
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Poetry in Translation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Wonderful multicultural/diversity poetry unit created by a Queens high school teacher. Students explore poetry from different cultures, including their own (in English and/or their native language).
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Types of Poems

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Explores poetry terms and the different types of poetry.
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PBS

Pbs Parents: Creativity Haiku

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Using this activity students can test their understanding of language and poetry by creating a Haiku using the word tiles in the box. Teachers and parents check out the interact, understand and expand buttons for more activities.
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Other

History of Haiku: Basho Matsuo

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes Basho's writing style, including his sense of humor. It also provides several examples of his poetry.
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Writing Lesson Idea: Poetry Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Many simple forms, such as cinquain and haiku, that follow set formats, are included in this poetry lesson plan.
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Other

Essays and Reviews: Mourning for Hokujurosen: Poem by Yosa Buson

For Students 9th - 10th
This poem is followed by a brief commentary. The writer explains images in the poem, and some of Buson's philosophical beliefs which affected the poem.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Poetry

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A learning module that includes twenty-two links to videos, pictures, weblinks, charts, and activities about different types of poetry including couplet, cinquain, acrostic, diamante, limerick, free verse, lyric, narrative, concrete, and...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Haiku Poems

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
In this whiteboard activity by SMART, students will learn what a Haiku poem is, where Haiku poems originated and how to create their own Haiku poems.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Simple Formula Poem: Dueling Haikus

For Students 9th - 10th
This writing prompt generator provides possible topics for students to write two haiku poems using opposite topics; therefore, "dueling haikus."
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Haiku

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an excellent flipchart to help the students construct their own haiku. It goes over counting syllables. This lesson is visually appealing and has a lot of hands on activities to help build schema.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Haiku Variation [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Tired of 17 syllables? Try a poem with 17 words instead with this variation on a haiku. Examples are provided. [PDF]
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Introduction to Poetry

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart teaches forms of poetry. It goes over a few key poetry definitions and then gives examples of a haiku and cinquain.
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Traditional Haiku [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
A summary for writing a traditional haiku is provided with examples.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Types of Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces a variety of poem types to students. It contains various forms of poetry with example poems.
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Columbia University

Asia for Educators: What Is a Waka?

For Students 9th - 10th
This large, wonderful site includes so much information on Asia that it is hard to showcase each element. It is easiest to enter Waka into the keyword box in order to access all the provided information. You will find an essay that...
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University of Oregon

University of Oregon: Pizzaz!

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
Come and check out this incredible resource from the University of Oregon. This site features links to creative-writing for poetry and fiction, as well as other teacher resources.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Di Ku And/or the Tri Ku [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students use a basic haiku structure to create di-ku and tri-ku poems to demonstrate understanding of a topic. Directions and examples of each are provided.
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Read Works

Read Works: Spring

For Students 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] One Haiku and three additional three-lined poems about spring. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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University of Pennsylvania

U Penn: Poetic Terms and Types

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Click on these terms for an excellent definition of these poetic terms, some from the Oxford English Dictionary. Includes types of poetry as well as terms.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Terminology: Practice 5 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] To be "in the know" in literature, you need to know the terminology used to describe, interpret, and analyze poetry, drama, and fiction. As you proceed through the sections...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: 103 Things to Do Before/during/after Reading

For Students K - 1st Standards
The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...

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