Area of Learning:

Focus: Poetry
Writing
Victorian Curriculum links:
Level 4 Create literary texts that explore students own experiences and
imagining (VCELT298)
Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in
poetry and other literary texts (VCELT285)
Date: 23/5/16

Learning
Intention:

We are learning about a form of poetry called Haiku and the rules we
need to follow to be able to produce this form of poetry.

Success
Criteria:

I know I am successful when I can follow the rules for Haiku and create
my own Haiku.
Show students these Haikus:
http://www.kidzone.ws/poetry/haiku.htm

Warm Up:
Go outside and use the senses to get ideas from the
environment. Focus on sounds, touch, sensations, scents etc.

Timing:
10 15
minute
s
Timing:

Mini Lesson:

Demonstrate what a Haiku is and the rules for the poem. Model
writing a Haiku on the board

Task:

Get the students to write their own Haikus, focusing on nature

as a theme, or the solar system.

Differentiation
:

Enable: Try and write one

Haiku

Extend: Write a few Haikus and focus on

the vocab

Focus Group:

Topic:

Members:

10
minute
s
Timing:
30
minute
s

Conferencing:
Timing:
Lesson
Reflection:

PST Reflection

Get students to share in a circle with one another their Haikus.

5
minute
s