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Lesson Plan:
All About Alliteration
Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify alliteration in text.
Introduction
(5 minutes)
- Use the Alliteration for Kids worksheet to introduce students to the content or review their prior knowledge.
- Have students identify the alliteration in each of the sentences on the worksheet.
- Allow volunteers to share their answers.
- Tell students that alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
- Tell students that metaphors are analogies that compare two unlike things without using "like" or "as."
- Have students identify the two things being compared and explain how they are similar.
- Explain to students that in this lesson they will identify alliteration in various texts and create alliteration of their own.
Explicit Instruction/Teacher Modeling
(10 minutes)- Distribute copies of the Pesky Peter Piper worksheet.
- Have students read the poem aloud.
- Have students identify the sound that they hear the most. (They should say /p/.)
- Remind students that alliterations repeat consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
- Have students complete the second poem by filling in a new consonant that creates a new alliteration.
- Tell students that this alliteration may not make sense, but it illustrates that the consonant or beginning letter.
- Let students know that they just created an alliteration.
- Allow them to create and read their second fill-in-the consonant alliteration if time permits.
Guided Practice/Interactive Modeling
(10 minutes)- Have students work in pairs or small groups to complete the Alliteration worksheet.
Independent Working Time
(25 minutes)- Read the directions for the Alphabet Alliteration worksheet aloud.
- Distribute the worksheet and have students complete it independently.
Differentiation
- Enrichment: Allow students to use the Alliteration is All Around worksheet to find alliteration in a library book or other short story.
- Support: Have struggling students complete the Fun With Alliteration worksheet, which has a word bank for support.
Assessment
(5 minutes)- Have your students each create a paragraph that uses alliteration in at least three sentences.
- Have them circle or underline the examples of alliteration in each sentence.
Review and Closing
(5 minutes)- Have students explain in their own words what they learned today.
- Allow students to ask questions that they still have about alliteration.
Guided Lessons are a sequence of interactive digital games, worksheets, and other activities
that guide learners through different concepts and skills.
They keep track of your progress and help you study smarter, step by step.
Guided Lessons are digital games and exercises that keep track of your progress and help you study smarter, step by step.
As students begin to read more sophisticated texts, understanding how authors use figurative language becomes critical. In this unit, students will revisit some of the figurative language they learned in fourth grade and also study some new ones too, including onomatopoeia, hyperbole, puns and oxymorons. Analyzing how figurative language is used in texts will help readers apply what they have learned.
As students begin to read more sophisticated texts, understanding how authors use figurative language becomes critical.
This lesson includes printable activities:
Download All (5)
Game: Sorting Similes in Muggo's Brain
Exercise: Similes 3
Exercise: Idioms 2
Game: Metaphor Sorting in Muggo's Brain
Exercise: Metaphors 3
Exercise: Onomatopoeia
Exercise: Alliteration
Exercise: Hyperbole
Exercise: Oxymoron
Exercise: Pun
