Have hearty humor with a handy, helpful handout! Kids work on their alliteration skills with a figurative language worksheet that focuses on alliterative adjectives and phrases. After kids add nouns to ten adjectives, they create five alliterative phrases and write sentences for each.

Concepts

alliteration, figurative language, poetic devices, poetic elements, literary elements

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use in a poetry unit or when studying figurative language
• Have kids create acrostic or freestyle poems using alliteration, either with the alliterative phrases they have created or with new lines
• A great addition to a homework packet or independent study unit
• See who can come up with the longest sentence using as much consecutive alliteration as possible

Classroom Considerations

• Provides an answer key, but since kids' answers will vary, it may be more helpful as an example to show before assigning the activity than as an assessment tool

Pros

• Fun for learners of all reading levels; advanced readers will enjoy the creative activity, and guided learning will support readers who need some extra help
• Provides differentiated instruction with open-ended answers

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.2.4