We studied alliteration.

We then went through these alliterations in class - reading them aloud.

  • Angela Abigail Applewhite ate anchovies and artichokes.
  • Bertha Bartholomew blew big, blue bubbles.
  • Clever Clifford Cutter clumsily closed the closet clasps.
  • Dwayne Dwiddle drew a drawing of dreaded Dracula.
  • Elmer Elwood eluded eleven elderly elephants.
  • Floyd Flingle flipped flat flapjacks.
  • Greta Gruber grabbed a group of green grapes.
  • Hattie Henderson hated happy healthy hippos.
  • Ida Ivy identified the ivory iris.
  • Julie Jackson juggled the juicy, jiggly jello.
  • Karl Kessler kept the ketchup in the kitchen.
  • Lila Ledbetter lugged a lot of little lemons.
  • Milton Mallard mailed a mangled mango.
  • Norris Newton never needed new noodles.
  • Patsy Planter plucked plump, purple, plastic plums.
  • Quinella Quist quite quickly quelled the quarreling quartet.
  • Randy Rathbone wrapped a rather rare red rabbit.
  • Shelly Sherman shivered in a sheer, short, shirt.
  • Trina Tweety tripped two twittering twins under a twiggy tree.
  • Uri Udall usually used his unique, unusual unicycle.
  • Vicky Vinc viewed a very valuable vase.
  • Walter Whipple warily warned the weary warrior.
  • Xerxes Xenon expected to xerox extra x-rays.
  • Yolana Yvonne Yarger yodeled up yonder yesterday.
  • Zigmund Zane zig-zagged through the zany zoo zone.

As a class, we then wrote one for the letter O.

The kids made alliteration books

Cover: Alliteration…what is it? (Students wrote the definition “repeating the same initial consonant sound in neighboring words”)

Page 1 : Choose 4 of the above alliterations and illustrate them.

Page 2: Choose 4 more of the above alliterations and add 3 or 4 alliterative words to each one.

Page 3: Write 5 of your own alliterations.

Page 4: Write 3 alliterations about famous people.

Page 5: Write 3 alliterations about products you use.

Overall, this was a good assignment. Depending on my students, I had to modify the number on each page. Some kids couldn’t handle the 5 of their own.