Alliteration

My mini lesson is on alliteration as a poetic device. In my lesson, we would explore the purpose of using alliteration. Instead of using someone else's poem, I would construct a short, silly one of my own, using my student's names. I think this would help keep them more interested and engaged.

First, I would introduce alliteration and what it is with a tongue twister and ask the students if they knew any, then we would read the poem together, calling out and marking the examples of alliteration within it. Then we would discuss that this was a conscious decision by the author (something I didn't understand when I was in middle school) and why the author chose to use this language. Then we would look at some less obvious examples of alliteration in everyday sentences. I would then check for understanding by asking students what alliteration is, what is it used for, etc.

Students would then have time to construct their own few lines, each one containing alliteration. These sentences should be linked together to tell a short story. I'll ask for volunteers to share.

To close, students will write on a piece of scrap paper one thing they learned and one question they have.