Write a Nature Haiku

Start every haiku sheet by clapping a few names together so the idea of a syllable is fresh. Students can tap the syllables on the desk as they count each line. On the writing sheets, let students say each line aloud before they write it down, then count again. Use the answer keys on the counting sheets to check the numbers together.

Six haiku worksheets from 2nd to 4th grade, two per grade. 2nd grade students clap and count the syllables in 12 picture words, then count the syllables in each line of two haiku and answer questions about them. 3rd grade students find the line with the wrong count in four haiku and pick a better one, then write a nature haiku with one dot for each syllable. 4th grade students find the season word in four haiku, then plan a haiku with what they see, hear and feel, check the syllables and write a final copy. Four of the six sheets have an answer key.

Yes, both. We made it for 3rd Grade poetry, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with haiku. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

A haiku is a short three-line poem, often about nature or a season. Its lines have 5, 7 and 5 syllables, or beats.

A season word tells the time of year without naming it, like mittens for winter or pumpkins for fall. The 4th grade season words sheet has students find and underline them in four haiku.

2nd, 3rd and 4th grade, with ten sheets for each grade. Each sheet's description names the grade it was written for, so you can choose a level, or move a child up or down a grade when a sheet feels too easy or too hard.

Five: acrostic poems, haiku, rhyming couplets, cinquains and poetry comprehension. Each type has two sheets per grade, usually one to read or practice the form and one to plan and write a poem. The comprehension sheets use original ClassWeekly poems.

A cinquain is a five-line poem. In the word form used in 2nd and 3rd grade, line 1 is a noun, line 2 has two adjectives, line 3 has three -ing verbs, line 4 is a four-word feeling, and line 5 renames line 1. The 4th grade sheets add the syllable form, with 2, 4, 6, 8 and 2 syllables in its lines.

Clap once for each beat as you say a word: car-rot is two claps, so it has two syllables. A haiku has three lines with 5, 7 and 5 syllables. The haiku sheets start with clapping picture words, then counting whole lines, then writing a haiku with one dot for each syllable.

18 of the 30 sheets do: every sheet with a right answer, such as counting syllables, finding rhymes or answering questions about a poem. The poem-writing sheets are open-ended, so there is nothing to mark right or wrong.