Fourth graders create a haiku. They use a digial camera and file management techniques to save work. They also use a photo editor to manipulate the pictures. Finally, they create a PowerPoint presentation of their Haiku.

Third graders try their hands at writing Haiku, a form of Japanese poetry. Haiku is usually 17 syllables in three-line form. This engaging lesson has many excellent worksheets and website imbedded in the plan. They share their finished...

Third graders gain an appreciation for writing, analyzing, reading and listening to poetry, viewing poems as a motivation for studying Japanese culture and tradition. They study and create their own haiku and tanka poems with illustrations.

Students experience and enjoy the sounds of poetry. They erform sound experiments with sonnets and closely read and analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare. Students write an analysis of how sound affects meaning in a sonnet chosen from the...

Rather than a lesson, this resource is a list of poetic forms and young poets are encouraged to try their hand at composing poems of various types.

After examining several Haiku and noting characteristics of the form, class members create five of their own poems. Use this resource for extra practice or review.

Sixth graders use a visit to the National Gallery of Art to inspire descriptive writing. They choose works of art and write descriptive word lists, paragraphs and Haiku.

Students create and solve haiku riddles.  In this haiku writing lesson, students work in groups to match a haiku to an illustration.  Students write haiku and assess themselves and their peers.

In this poetry worksheet, students write an acrostic poem about hats by beginning each line with a letter in the word "Hats."

In this Cinco de Mayo worksheet, students write an acrostic poem about the holiday using each one of the letters. Students complete 11 lines in the poem.

Students read two Inuit folktales about life and death. In this language arts lesson plan, students study the models of giving found in these Inuit tales about life, death, grief, sacrifice, and generosity. As the class reads these...

In this online interactive states worksheet, students write an acrostic poem regarding Georgia using the letters GEORGIA. This worksheet may also be printed for use in classrooms.

In this online interactive Indiana activity, students write an acrostic poem regarding Indiana using the letters INDIANA. This activity may also be printed for use in classrooms.

In this Delaware worksheet, students write an acrostic poem about the state of Delaware. Students use each letter in DELAWARE to start each line of poetry.

In this online interactive language arts worksheet, students write an acrostic poem regarding Illinois using the letters ILLINOIS. This worksheet may also be printed for use in classrooms.

In this online interactive Kentucky worksheet, students write an acrostic poem regarding Kentucky using the letters KENTUCKY. This worksheet may also be printed for use in classrooms.

In this online interactive language arts learning exercise, students write an acrostic poem regarding Florida using the letters FLORIDA. This learning exercise may also be printed for use in classrooms.

In this veterans acrostic poem instructional activity, learners read an example of an acrostic poem and then write one using the letters VETERAN.

In this language arts worksheet, students use the letters in HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to begin each line of an acrostic poem about fathers.

In this language arts worksheet, pupils use the letters in MY FATHER to begin each line of an acrostic poem about their own fathers.

In this language arts worksheet, students use the letters in the word JULY to begin each line of an acrostic poem about the month of July.

This shamrock-shaped graphic organizer helps students set up a limerick based on a few sample lines. Students are prompted on which lines should rhyme, and how many syllables each line should have. Once they are finished, the shamrocks...

This shamrock-shaped graphic organizer helps students set up a limerick based on a few sample lines. Students are prompted on which lines should rhyme, and how many syllables each line should have. Once they are finished, the shamrocks...

In this poetry worksheet, learners write their fears and hopes for the year and then write an acrostic poem spelling out year seven. Students answer three short answer questions.