The Nature of Haiku: Students Use Haiku to Learn About the Natural World and Improve Their Observational Skills

by: Peter Rillero, JoAnn V. Cleland, and Karen A. Conzelman

Would you like your students to learn about nature and improve their observational abilities? Incorporating haiku into your curriculum can help meet these science goals and give children a positive writing experience as they learn about the world around them. The open-ended nature of haiku writing is motivational and student centered. Also, the simplicity of haiku allows children to have successful writing experiences. This chapter describes how your students can learn about nature and improve their observational abilities by incorporating haiku into the elementary classroom.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 10/31/2011Stock # PB311X_21

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