{"id":9299,"date":"2013-05-15T17:16:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T21:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehaikufoundation.org\/?page_id=9299"},"modified":"2020-11-12T20:10:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T01:10:09","slug":"haiku-reading-plan-for-grades-3-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/learn\/the-haiku-foundation-education-wall\/haiku-reading-plan-for-grades-3-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiku Reading Plan for Grades 3 \u2013 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note to Teachers:<\/strong> Thank you for taking the time to visit our Haiku Lesson Plans for Grades 3 \u2013 4. The first plan for this age level focuses on Awareness of this poetry form, and it includes haiku by students. You may wish to teach this plan first.<\/p>\n

For this reading plan, we are featuring haiku from Montage: The Book<\/em>, a book and online gallery unique to The Haiku Foundation. \u201cMontage<\/em>, a haiku gallery edited by Allan Burns and sponsored by The Haiku Foundation, was updated weekly from March to December of 2009. A comparative exhibit, its goal was to juxtapose the work of poets, often from different times and places, in order to suggest something about the range and breadth of haiku in English\u201d (THF site). Montage: The Book<\/em> is both an on-line gallery<\/a> and a print book (Winchester VA: The Haiku Foundation, 2010).<\/p>\n

The writing lesson plan for this age level will offer additional inspiration from Montage: The Book<\/em>, to help the students begin writing their own haiku. We hope that poems by your students become part of our plans here on THF site in the future, and that being published here is a further encouragement to your classes.<\/p>\n

Goal:<\/strong> To show beginning comprehension of haiku by a variety of poets; along with beginning to discover the history of this genre through examples of poems, and what we have in common with one another (the universals).<\/p>\n

Objective:<\/strong> To show understanding of three haiku from Montage: The Book<\/em>, through listening and reading along with the teacher, silently and aloud (if the student volunteers); and participating in a class discussion.<\/p>\n

Materials:<\/strong> A chalkboard will work best for this lesson\u2014wide enough so the three haiku by different poets can be written horizontally, to help students make comparisons. In Montage: The Book<\/em>, each gallery includes three poets, with seven poems per poet.<\/p>\n

Time:<\/strong> about 20 minutes<\/p>\n

Method:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. This is a group lesson. Write the following three haiku in large letters on the chalkboard, horizontally, so students can read the poems as if reading a book. The idea is for the students to see and discover that haiku from across the centuries can center around a common theme and be as fresh today as then.<\/p>\n

2. You may also wish to write this quote from Montage: The Book<\/em> on the board: \u201cHaiku, one could say, is an art of moments\u201d (\u201cBaseball\u201d, Gallery 15). Haiku may be defined simply as a short poem.<\/p>\n