Studied students stupefy! Students learn about alliteration by listening to an alliterative read-aloud and apply the knowledge they gain to the creation of their own poem and illustration.

Students learn about alliteration, and then practice using alliteration in acrostic poems, tongue twisters, alphabet books, and number books.

Students will be introduced to the term alliteration and create a headline poem consisting of 25 words that contain at least three examples of alliteration.

Through this lesson, primary students strengthen their phonemic awareness while using picture books featuring alliteration as models for their own writing.

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the use of special features of poetry, with many examples. The accompanying handout gives practice at identifying the metre and rhyme of various poems.

This video lesson introduces the concept of alliteration. Letter recognition is reviewed in preparation for recognizing and writing alliterations. An accompanying handout provides practice with alliteration.

This resource includes 5 videos for each of 5 weeks to assist students in developing writing trait skills in the following areas: -Ideas -Organization -Word Choice -Sentence Fluency -Voice **Please note: Conventions is embedded throughout.

Students are introduced to Old English and the poetic devices of alliteration, kenning, and compounding in preparation for reading the epic poem "Beowulf".

"The activities are designed for students to practice, demonstrate, and extend their learning of what has already been taught, sometimes with teacher assistance and sometimes independently. Students can complete the activities in small groups, pairs, or individually.

Accompanying these Student Center Activities is a Teacher Resource Guide that offers important insights on differentiated instruction and how to use the Student Center materials."

Activities for: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension