Haiku In Your Classroom

Welcome to our Goodeyedeers e-book all about using haiku in your classroom.

We want to share with you a number of fun ways that you can use haiku with your children to help them reinforce different literacy skills.

We will begin by explaining where haiku poetry originates and how it is set out. Then we are going to explore a number of different and fun ways you can use haiku. These will include:

• Haiku and Word Definitions - from your chosen word list look up the definitions of the words in the dictionary and use these to write a haiku.
• Haiku and Word Meanings - children write haiku to show they understand the meaning of words from their word list.
• Haiku and Synonyms and Antonyms - use a thesaurus, then refine your word choices to fit the haiku form.
• Haiku and Semi-Colons - a chance to practise using semi-colons.
• Haiku and Dinosaurs - can you get a set of facts paraphrased into just 17 syllables?
• Haiku and Lists - any list at all – football teams, dinosaurs, weather, car makes, foods – so long as you can fit them into the haiku form.
• Haiku and Rhyming - this doesn’t usually happen with haiku - but it is fun to give it a try.
• Haiku and Alliteration - we start with some simple alliteration and finish by creating haiku tongue twisters.