ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Seasonal Haiku
This site is a three-part lesson that teaches students how to write and depict seasonal imagery through haiku. Students study, listen to, and create original haiku on colored backgrounds.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Teach Kids How to Write Haiku
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.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Poetic Form and Structure
This online instructional activity makes use of concrete poems to teach the structure and form of poetry. Uses a "Columbus Day," theme for the instructional activity, but can be used any time of the year.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Japanese Garden Vocabulary: Haiku [Pdf]
A mini-unit on haiku where learners learn about and write haiku inspired by Japanese gardens. This activity is intended to be done in conjunction with a visit to a Japanese garden, but this is not essential.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson Plan: Grades 7 12: Exploring Selected Haiku by Issa
A lesson plan, based on the work of the Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa, that explores the haiku form of poetry. Students will learn features of a haiku, identify features within Issa's work, and write an original haiku. The lesson plan...