To celebrate National Poetry Month, The New York Times started a completely brilliant Tumblr, Times Haiku, wherein an algorithm combs through newly published articles for sentences that potentially ...

Haiku, a traditional form of Japanese poetry, was the centerpiece of a recent Baltimore County Public Schools’ contest. The challenge posed to students was to write a haiku on the theme of family.

3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their ...

Ahhhh, June. In just a few days, school will be out for the summer and everywhere children — and teachers — will be cheering. So when we asked for some poetic “School’s Out” cheers, readers responded ...

* What can we learn about reading and writing haiku, in particular traditional Japanese haiku? * What can we learn about reading literature closely, by focusing on words and images in order to explore ...

You may have seen the story about the rival San Antonio high schools that finished a football game and immediately segued to a massive food fight at a local fast food restaurant. If nothing else, the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A Columbia high school teacher is using his love for writing haikus to create a community of poets. Three lines. Five syllables. Seven syllables. Then five syllables again. It’s how ...