Learners love literary lyrics! Practice alliteration with an activity that encourages kids to find a line of alliteration for every letter of the alphabet. After they finish, they can create a line of their own alliteration and explain why their example shows alliteration.

Concepts

alliteration, literary elements, figurative language

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Include in your unit about figurative language and poetic elements
• Have kids use the lines they come up with in a freestyle poem, reordering the stanzas as they wish
• See who can come up with the longest example of continuous alliteration
• Encourage inspired writers to exchange the given adjectives for their own ideas

Classroom Considerations

• You'll need to provide more support for the section where kids create their own alliteration
• The language for the last question may be a little advanced for younger learners, but they could still complete it with some rewording

Pros

• Provides an adjective for each letter so that kids only need to think of a matching noun
• A straightforward activity to either introduce or review alliteration

Cons

• None