What Is a Haiku A haiku is a

What Is a Haiku? A haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry that often focuses on a subject related to nature or geography. Haikus do not require a rhyming pattern but they do require a particular pattern of syllables. What is a syllable?

What Is a Haiku? Look at these rainforest haikus. Can you recognise a common syllable pattern within them both? Central Heating Newspaper Forests Glaciers melting; Deforestation; Global sea levels rising. Cattle farms; palm oil; paper: Turn up the heating. Read all about it. Haikus always have three lines of poetry with 5 syllables, 7 syllables and 5 syllables. Read each of the haikus again, but this time, clap the syllable pattern.

What Is a Haiku? See if you can rearrange these words to create a haiku about plastic-filled seas. Carrier seas; bag marine fish life: habitat. Plastic Killing and

What Is a Haiku? See if you can rearrange these words to create a haiku about plastic-filled seas. Carrier bag seas; Killing fish and Plastic habitat. marine life:

Planning a Haiku Now, try writing your own haiku about the environment. What issue could your haiku be about? polar ice caps climate change solar power greenhouse gases littering endangered species Try out some ideas on your whiteboards. Clap the syllables of your haiku lines to check that you have the correct 5 -7 -5 pattern.

Writing a Haiku Write and illustrate your haiku. Don’t forget to work out your punctuation and capitalisation on a whiteboard first! Second-hand planet, Few million miles on clock, Seeks careful owner.