Summer Haiku Poetry - teaching resource

Summer Haiku Poetry - mini-unit for Year 6 / Year 7 

'Summer Haiku Poetry' is a fun mini-unit of work designed to cover creative writing and poetry at either Upper KS2 or Lower KS3. The resource is made up of a range of engaging lessons and activities and is fully editable to allow teachers to easily tweak and adjust it for different seasons or themes. 

Contents include:

• Talk for Writing - what is a haiku?
• Exploring and discussing haiku poem
• Creating a class haiku 
• Individual, pair and group work opportunities 
• Learning and developing through constructive criticism
• Writing an individual haiku about summer
• Using colour photographs of summer as writing stimulus
• Drafting - how and why we redraft
• How to plan and structure a haiku
• Exemplar poems
• Writing assessment opportunity 

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