Teach Haiku, Close Reading, and Cross-Curricular Learning with Riddle-ku

"Riddle-ku: Haiku for Very Close Reading" makes teaching haiku to children easy with 30 American-style (5-7-5) haiku by award-winning poet Laura Purdie Salas (author of "BookSpeak ," "Water Can Be...," and more). Each haiku speaks from the voice of a common object recognizable to kids from kindergarten age up. These riddle poems make excellent close reading passages, as students study images and text and make inferences to answer them. A Note from the Poet with each poem shares Laura's writing process. Vivid...