Teaching for Success: Lessons and Teaching

WEEK 1 PLANNING LESSONS AND COURSES

Lesson commentary
Aim – to develop writing skills by creating a Haiku poem

Length – 40 minutes

Lesson Aim Procedure Interaction

stage and
timing

Lead in To make a link to poems learners are Ask questions to elicit that Haiku is a type of poem Whole class
familiar with in their own culture from Japan
10 mins
To establish the format of Haiku Dictate an example of a Haiku poem. Ask questions to
poems (3 lines, a certain number of check understanding of vocabulary in the poem
syllables on each line)
Write the correct version of the poem on the board
To give an example of a Haiku poem for learners to check

Pre-writing: To create a shared vocabulary Brainstorm ‘feelings’ vocab and write them on the Whole class
sharing resource for learners to use board
vocabulary
To check the number of syllables in Do the same with ‘times of the day’. Establish that
10 mins key vocabulary in preparation for these are important in Haiku poems
writing the poem
Ask questions to check understanding of syllables and
how this relates to the poem

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Writing To develop writing skills through Put learners into pairs Pairs
creating a poem, using ‘feelings’
15 mins Pairs write their own poem
vocabulary
Learners write their poems on a post-it

Post-writing To share ideas Learners read the poems on the post-its Whole class

5 mins To give learners the opportunity to

read each other’s writing

Homework To further develop writing skills Learners write their own Haiku poem to bring to the
through individual creation of a next class
(after class!)
poem

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