The next day, Miss Tracy had the students take a gallery walk of different haikus and write down what they noticed about the haikus. Many noticed that they are short, three lines, poetry, and about nature. With some prompting they figured out that the first line has five syllables, and the second line has seven syllables, and the last line has five syllables again.
Before Miss Tracy taught the haiku unit, we first wanted to see what students already knew about a haiku, so she gave them a writing prompt to write an informational piece describing what a haiku is, what makes it special, and where it comes from. It was clear that we have very creative students and that they have no idea what an haiku is. We did tell them to make something up and write about it, if they had no idea, so we got the craziest, funniest answers. The next day, Miss Tracy had the students take a gallery walk of different haikus and write down what they noticed about the haikus. Many noticed that they are short, three lines, poetry, and about nature. With some prompting they figured out that the first line has five syllables, and the second line has seven syllables, and the last line has five syllables again. The next day, students partnered up on Chromebooks to do some reserach to find out exactly what haikus are. They searched and read some books on Epic and took notes using a telling frame. The next day, students color coded their information they gathered to help them put similar things together. Because the prompt had three areas the kids needed to address, we used three colors to sort our information. Next, students were ready to organize their information on their paragraph template. In third grade, students are expected to write an elaborated paragraph by saying more about each reason. Then they were ready to write their paragraphs! As you can see, students learned a lot about what an haiku is!
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