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.