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Be an Author

Everyone can write. Writing can be very easy to do.

All you need to have to start is a pencil and a piece of paper or two or three.

You can also use the computer to type your story or poem.

Let’s get started. Listed below are several types of poems.

Types of Poems

Acrostic Poem

Daring
Exciting
Bashful
Outgoing
Random
Artistic
Happy

Rhyming Pattern Poem

A-B-C-B

I like to ride my bike each day

And ride it through the park

Sometimes slow but mostly fast

To get home before dark

Haiku Poem

5-7-5 (syllables)

I’m happy today

Tomorrow it could all change

And I might be sad

Sound Poem

Clomp, clomp, clomp…Thud, Splish, Splash

Running and jumping in puddles is so much fun

I don’t want to ever be done!

Cinquain Poem
(5 line poem)

Triangles
Pointy edges
Revolving, rotating, angling
Triangles are all different.
180°

Line 1: one word (subject or noun)
Line 2: two words (adjectives) that describe line 1
Line 3: three words (action verbs) that relate to line 1
Line 4: four words (feelings or a complete sentence) that relate to line 1
Line 5: one word (synonym of line 1 or a word that sums it up)

Writing Resources

PBS Create a Story

Kidzone Poetry Links

How to Write an Acrostic Poem

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