Create poetry with a worksheet based on alliterative phrases. After reviewing ten nouns, kids add an adjective to each based on the first letter of the noun. They then rewrite five sentences to involve more alliteration.

Concepts

alliteration, figurative language, poetic devices, parts of speech

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Depending on the reading level of your class, you could introduce the idea of participles versus adjectives in this activity
• Assign in a homework packet or in a language arts center
• See who can create the longest sentence using as much consecutive alliteration as possible

Classroom Considerations

• You may need to guide kids through the second part of the worksheet, as replacing nearly every word in each sentence could be challenging
• The worksheet focuses on nouns, but all nouns are already provided; kids are really focusing on adjectives

Pros

• Guides kids into figurative language and poetic devices
• Easy to follow
• Comes with an answer key, which has suggestions for answers

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.2.4