This worksheet will help your students become familiar with the poetic device of alliteration. Students colour a series of apples depending on the initial sound, to create a silly sentence that alliterates.
Use as a teacher led, whole class or literacy group activity.
Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words (phonological awareness)
Listen to and discuss poems, chants, rhymes and songs, and imitate and invent sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme
Explore how repetition, rhyme and rhythm create cohesion in simple poems, chants and songs
Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words
Listen to, recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs, imitating and inventing sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme
Demonstrates developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend short, predictable texts on familiar topics in different media and technologies
Recognises a range of purposes and audiences for spoken language and recognises organisational patterns and features of predictable spoken texts
Identifies, blends, segments and manipulates phonological units in spoken words as a strategy for reading and creating texts
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Have students create their own alliterating sentence.