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All About Alliteration

Consonants rule when it comes to alliteration. In this lesson, students will complete a variety of worksheets to enhance their understanding of beginning sounds and alliteration.
Grade:
Fifth Grade
View aligned standards
RL.5.4

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to identify alliteration in text.

Introduction

(5 minutes)
  • Use the Alliteration for Kids worksheet to introduce students to the content or review their prior knowledge.
  • Have students identify the alliteration in each of the sentences on the worksheet.
  • Allow volunteers to share their answers.
  • Tell students that alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
  • Tell students that metaphors are analogies that compare two unlike things without using "like" or "as."
  • Have students identify the two things being compared and explain how they are similar.
  • Explain to students that in this lesson they will identify alliteration in various texts and create alliteration of their own.