Distance Learning: Day 6

Good morning!

I'm delighted to see that most of us seem to be getting on top of rhyming now - bravo! Good job! :D

Let's turn our attention to alliteration today.

As you know, alliteration is kind of the opposite of rhyme; rhyme is where the END of the words sounds the same, but alliteration is where the BEGINNING of the words sounds the same.

Here's a little warm up activity to help practice alliteration!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english/games/space_spins/small_no_sound/standard.shtml

TODAY'S LESSON
Learning Objective: Identifying and using alliteration.

PART 1:
Here's part of a poem I wrote a few months ago, which uses regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm and lots of alliteration.

Please identify all the alliteration and also any rhymes you find - I've done the first two verses for you as an example.

(DO NOT BE FOOLED JUST BECAUSE YOU SEE THE SAME LETTERS! SAY IT OUT LOUD AND CHECK THAT IT'S THE SAME SOUND TOO! Remember your phonics lessons - sometimes a letter sounds different depending on what it's next to - for example, c doesn't sound the same as ch, these are different sounds, just like t and th are different sounds.)

AN ALLITERATIVE ANIMAL ALPHABET

Alliteration quite astounded all the creatures of the world

And a realm of new linguistic possibilities unfurled:

Alligators aptly snapped up the acrostic form with ease <--- "apt" & "snapped" rhyme too!

And amazed their awe-struck visitors, ad-libbing A-to-Zs;

Burly bears became beguiled by the beauty of their ballads

And gladly swapped their diet of raw meat for one of salads;

And captive cobras concentrated on their compositions

Distracted by their muses into docile dispositions;

A dainty dingo dreamed of writing syncopated doggerel
Convinced that gorgeous poetry would move her love to snog her well;

While elephants penned epics in the style of Virgil’s Iliad

And no one had the heart to tell them that their rhymes were really bad;

If you're curious, you can find the whole poem here:

http://www.hitrecord.org/records/402057

And you can listen to it being performed here:

http://www.hitrecord.org/records/403229

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PART 2:

Once you have finished that, can you make up five new tongue-twisters of your own? I'm sure you remember that a tongue-twister is a sentence that's packed full of alliteration, like these:

"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick."
"Betty bought a bit of butter but the butter was too bitter so she bought a better butter to make the bitter butter better."
"She sells seashells by the seashore."

(CHALLENGE: You might like to use more than one kind of alliteration in your tongue-twister, to really tie people's tongues in knots! It can be especially tricky to pronounce a tongue-twister that has similar sounds in it, like lots of Ss and also lots of Shs, or lots of Fs and Vs together, or lots of Ps and Bs together, or lots of Ts and Ds together.)

Finally, here's a game to help you practice the skills of rhyme, rhythm and alliteration:

http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/games/wiznpigs/wiznpigs.html