Lesson+Resources

[|Sample Resources Page]

[] [] [] [] - the Bubble map graphic organizer http://www.kidzone.ws/poetry/haiku.htm - for form used in this lesson. This website also has some other forms/guides that can be printed. [] - rubric for the final product
 * Resources for the Teachers:**

[] [|Haiku Webquest (as a lesson extension)] [|Bruce Lansky's Giggle Poetry site: "How to write a 'Haiku' Poem"] Write a Haiku: http://childrensbooks.suite101.com/article.cfm/write_a_haiku Children's Haiku Garden: http://homepage2.nifty.com/haiku-eg/
 * Resources for the Students:**

**BOOKS ON HAIKU WE HAVE IN OUR LIBRARY:**

Gollub, Matthew, and Kazuko G. Stone. (1998). //Cool Melons - Turn to Frogs! The Life and Poems of Issa.// New York: Lee and Low Books. Call Number: 821 GOL

Higginson, William, J. (ed.). (1991). //Wind in the long grass: a collection of Haiku//. Illustrated by Sandra Speidel. New York: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers. Call Number: 821 HIG An illustrated collection of haiku from all over the world arranged by season.

Issa, Kobayashi. (2007**) //Today and Today : H// // aiku. P //**ictures by G. Brian Karas. New York: Scholastic Press. Call Number: 895.6 KOB. Translated from the Japanese. Presents a collection of short haiku poems by eighteenth-century Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa.

Janeczko, Paul B. and J. Patrick Lewis. (2006). //Wing Nuts: Screwy Haiku//. Illustrated by Tricia Tusa. New York: Little, Brown. Call Number: 811.JAN Contains a collection of illustrated senryu--short poems related to haiku--covering a wide range of subjects, including baby- sitters, jumping rope, snoring parents, spoiled pets, and more.

Lewis, Patrick J. (1995). //Black Swan, White Crow//. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers. (ISBN# ). Call Number: 821 LEW A collection of nineteen //haiku// with themes from nature and the outdoors.

Mora, Pat. (2007). //Yum! mmmm! Que Rico! : America's Sproutings: Haiku by Pat Mora//. Pictures by Rafael Lopez. New York: Lee & Low Books. Call Number: 811 MOR. A collection of haikus that celebrates indigenous foods of the Americas, such as blueberries and vanilla, and includes information about each food's origins.

Prelutsky, Jack. (2004). //If not for the Cat.// paintings by Ted Rand. New York: Greenwillow Books.Call Number: 811 PRE