February is National Haiku Writing Month. The website nahaiwrimo.com urges us to write one haiku a day for the month of February. "Why February? Because it’s the shortest month, for the world’s ...

Introduce and discuss the 7 characteristics of writing haiku on chart paper. Anchor the idea with examples of each characteristic. Re-read Basho and the Fox and focus on the haiku poetry by doing a ...

Traditionally, haiku are about nature, and often refer to a season ... something may happen or suddenly be understood. Here is an example of a haiku by Lewis Grandison Alexander about rain ...