Name: Oxford Discover 3 Unit 5 Read along You Can Be a Poet
Uploaded: 2023-09-23T14:21:53.000Z
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Poets write about the world in a special way.

They want to share the beauty and joy of life.

1. A good poet observes things carefully.  

When you were going to school this morning,

Many poets write about the things they see around them.

3. A good poet knows how to describe things.

Writing about these things  can make a poem interesting. 

Here are three examples that you can try right away.

Try them, and you can become a poet, too.

Acrostic Acrostic is pronounced ah-cross-stick. 

An acrostic poem uses all the letters  of the topic word to describe the topic. 

Find one topic word that is interesting to YOU.

Use each letter as the beginning of a new word.

The new words should tell us something about the topic word.

Line 2: Two adiectives that describe the topic word 

Line 3: Three action verbs that end in -ing

Line 5: One new noun that is similar to the topic word. 

Haiku poems use an exact number of syllables in each line.

Remember to choose a topic that interests you,

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Oxford Discover 3 Unit 5 Read along You Can Be a Poet

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