Extend the writing to make illustrated hanging scrolls with the haiku poems. Publish the poems into a class book. Have your students teach haiku to another class. In centers, have students sort poems ...

Tim Mueller is an English teacher at AC Flora High School. He says he's written nearly 5,000 haiku poems, which he's using to inspire others.

That is a haiku, a 500-year-old Japanese poetic form whose first and last lines always have five syllables, its middle line seven. Today, grade school teachers in the U.S. are turning to it as a ...