Overview: |
In this lesson, students learn about alliteration from picture books by author/illustrator, Pamela Duncan Edwards. Using the books' illustrations for inspiration, students write original alliterative sentences and share them with the class. As the lesson continues, students practice using alliteration to create acrostic poems, alphabet books, number books, and tongue twisters. |
| Content Standard(s): |
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 3
| R3. Expand background knowledge and build vocabulary through discussion, reading, and writing. | English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 3
| 27. Read prose, poetry, and dramas, identifying the literary devices used by the author to convey meaning.
Examples: personification, imagery, alliteration, onomatopoeia, symbolism, metaphor, simile | English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 3
| 41. Use words and phrases in writing for effect and elaboration.
a. Use transition words and phrases for sentence variety. | English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 4
| 10. Interpret words and phrases, including figurative language, as they are used in a text.
a. Explain how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
b. Explain how figurative language contributes to the meaning of text, including simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, hyperbole, and idioms.
c. Use the relationships between synonyms, antonyms, and homographs to increase understanding of word meanings. | English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 5
| 12. Interpret the meaning of words, phrases, and patterns as they are used in texts, including domain-specific and academic vocabulary and figurative language.
a. Locate similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, imagery, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and idioms and interpret their meanings in context.
b. Explain the meanings of common idioms, adages, and proverbs.
c. Use the relationships between synonyms, antonyms, and homographs to increase understanding of word meanings.
d. Explain how an author's vocabulary and style influence the tone and mood of a text and support his/her purpose for writing.
e. Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meanings of words. |
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Acrostic Poems, alliteration, alliterative, alphabet book, collaboration, listening, number book, Pamela Duncan Edwards, readaloud, tongue twisters |