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Fall-Themed Haiku Poetry Writing Pack | Visual Prompts & Publishing Pages to Pinterest (opens in a new window)
$5.75Add to CartBring the beauty, colors, and rhythm of autumn into your writing block! This comprehensive Fall-Themed Haiku Poetry Pack is designed to teach students the traditional art of haiku poetry while sparking their creativity through vibrant, nature-inspired visual prompts. From colorful foliage and forest wildlife to pumpkin patches and harvest tables, this resource gives learners everything they need to brainstorm, draft, and publish their own seasonal masterpieces.
📦 What’s Included in This Resource?
- Haiku Instruction & Anchor Chart Page: A clear, student-friendly reference guide breaking down the origins of Japanese haiku, the traditional focus on nature, the 5-7-5 syllable structure, and mentor poem examples.
- 20 Full-Color Photo Prompts: Breathtaking, autumn-themed photography prompts featuring winding forest boardwalks, mountain foliage, waterfalls, wildlife (owls, deer, wolves, foxes/cats, wild turkeys, squirrels), orchard harvests, trains through autumn trees, and Thanksgiving displays.
- 11 Student Drawing & Writing Template Pages: Formatted drawing pages where students can sketch, illustrate, or paste their own fall observations before writing.
- 26 Additional Themed Publishing Pages:
- 9 Full-Color Pages with Borders and/or Images: Illustrated pages featuring vibrant autumn leaves, seasonal berries, harvest motifs, and arched window frames.
- 17 Black-and-White Color-In Pages: Engaging line art featuring pumpkins, autumn leaves swirling in the wind, scarecrows, acorns, pinecones, cozy hedgehogs, turkeys, bare trees, and Thanksgiving harvest feasts.
✨ Benefits of Using This Resource
- Eliminates Writer’s Block: High-quality visual prompts immediately trigger sensory details, making it easy for reluctant writers to find words and imagery.
- Strengthens Syllabication & Phonological Awareness: Counting out the 5-7-5 syllable pattern builds word awareness, pronunciation skills, and intentional vocabulary selection.
- Multi-Age & Differentiated Friendly: Simple enough for early elementary students learning basic syllable counts, yet rich enough for middle-grade writers refining figurative language and concise imagery.
- Display-Ready Work: The decorative color and color-in publishing sheets double as beautiful bulletin board displays, portfolio additions, or keepsake poetry gifts for families.
- Zero Prep: Just print and teach!
🎯 Common Core Standards Covered
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3 / RF.2.3 / RF.3.3: Phonological Awareness & Word Recognition (identifying syllables, breaking words into syllable segments).
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.5 / W.2.5 / W.3.5 / W.4.5: Writing Process (planning, drafting, revising, and focusing on concise word choice).
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.4 / RL.3.4 / RL.4.4: Craft and Structure (identifying how rhythm, structure, and poetic forms create imagery and meaning).
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.5 / L.4.5 / L.5.5: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use (exploring figurative language, sensory descriptions, and word nuances).
✏️ How to Use in the Classroom or Homeschool
- Introduce & Model: Display the introductory reference sheet. Review the 5-7-5 syllable rule and clap out syllables together using the mentor examples.
- Brainstorm with Visuals: Project one of the 20 photo prompt cards or pass them out to small groups. Have students jot down descriptive adjectives, autumn verbs, and sensory words based on what they see.
- Draft & Count: Students arrange their ideas into three distinct lines, tapping or clapping to verify their syllable counts.
- Publish & Illustrate: Choose from the full-color decorative pages or let students personalize one of the black-and-white coloring pages to frame their finished haiku. Alternatively, use the blank frame sheets for an outdoor nature-walk sketch activity!
🛒 Ready to Inspire Your Young Poets? Add a splash of autumn wonder to your language arts lessons today!
👉 Download your Fall-Themed Haiku Poetry Pack now and watch your students’ seasonal creativity take flight! 🍁📝✨
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$3.00Add to CartFUN Fall writing activity. This resource has been designed to help students plan out and write a fun, Fall-themed story! Can be used again and again as things will change each time students use the activity because of the roll of the dice.
Using this resource, students will roll one die 4 times and use the chart to help determine the character, setting, weather and conflict that should be in their story. Then, they will plan out their story on given pages:
– Character Planner
– Setting Planner
– Story PlannerAfter all planning is complete, they will write their stories!
Will their stories be about a fox, a mouse, a scarecrow, a raven, a badger or a turkey?
Will it happen in an apple orchard, a corn silo, a pumpkin patch, a hollow tree, a corn field or an old barn?
Will it be during the first frost, in rainy or windy weather? Will it be too hot or during an early snow? Will there be a tornado warning?
What will be the conflict? An oncoming tractor, finding a winter home, seeing that the leaves aren’t falling yet (oh, no!)? Is the farmer too sick to harvest is crop? Or is the crop in danger because of the weather or insect?
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$2.50Add to CartWriting can be overwhelming for students. To help solve this problem, here is a writing planning organizer that will map out what they are writing about, the purpose of their writing and the steps and deadlines to complete each. Regardless of why they are writing or the purpose of their writing (to inform, to entertain, to explain, to persuade) this planning organizer will help them throughout the process.
Also included at the end of the organizer is a student self-assessment of the process and describe what they may have learned and would change.
Download and use again and again!
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A fun and whimsical cross-curricular activity that your students will love. Students will read a ‘going back in time’ narrative about a young man finding himself aboard a ship with Christopher Columbus. After reading the passage and answering a few ‘get you thinking’ questions, students will be asked to ‘complete the story’. Ask students not only to use their knowledge and skills of writing but also their knowledge about Columbus, the time, the passage to the ‘New World’, living conditions, etc. You may also ask them to do a little research to find out more about the subject before completing the story.
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This resource, Pumpkin Poetry, has been created to spark your students’ imaginations and creative writing!
Watch a preview video here.Covering 9 different types of poetry:
- Acrostic
- Diamante
- Haiku
- Limerick
- Mono rhyme
- Cinquain
- Minute
- Tanka
- Shape
See description below for more details.
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Winter Sports Color and Write is a 7 student page Language Arts resource. On each page, students can color a picture and then write a story, a short report or perhaps even create a poem…as their creative thinking is sparked!
Are any international or national winter sports games happening? The Olympics perhaps or a World or National Championship? This resource would be great to use during those times…but can be used ANY TIME!
Included Winter Sports: skiing, skating, bob sledding, hockey, and snowboarding PLUS you’ll find two pages that depict participants standing and receiving medals
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Get your students’ creative thoughts going with this resource, October Color & Write A Story! With 20 different October / Fall-themed scenes, students can color the picture on each and then write a story that goes along with the picture.
Use as part of a creative story writing assignment, as seat work for early finishers, as a homework assignment, in a literacy center or even in a sub-folder! Also, imagine the great student-created bulletin board that can be displayed from student creations.
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This resource is a great extension activity for 2nd-3rd grade students who have just finished learning about Columbus. Students will use their creative imagination and write a travel log as if they were an actual crew member aboard a voyage with Columbus. They will then create a ‘telling telescope’ for their travel log and a fun little sailor hat!
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Haiku is a Japanese poetry form and uses just a few words to capture a moment and to create a picture in the reader’s mind!
This resource will teach students how to write a Haiku, provides several spring picture writing prompts and provides 30 themed writing pages.
