Alliterating Apples
This worksheet will help your students become familiar with the poetic device of alliteration. Students colour a series of apples depending on the initial sound, to create a silly sentence that alliterates.
Use as a teacher led, whole class or literacy group activity.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to listen for rhyme, letter patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words (phonological awareness).
- We are learning to listen for rhyme, letter patterns, syllables and sounds in words.
- We are learning to listen to, discuss and explore sound patterns, e.g. alliteration and rhyme, in poems, chants, rhymes and songs.
- We are learning to recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs and explore sound patterns, e.g. alliteration, rhyme.
- We are learning to identify patterns of repetition in texts and to identify rhyme in poems, chants and songs.
Curriculum alignment
AC9EFLY09
9
Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words (phonological awareness)
AC9E1LE04
9
Listen to and discuss poems, chants, rhymes and songs, and imitate and invent sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme
AC9E1LA04
9
Explore how repetition, rhyme and rhythm create cohesion in simple poems, chants and songs
ACELA1439
8.4
Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words
ACELT1585
8.4
Listen to, recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs, imitating and inventing sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme
ENe-4A
old
Demonstrates developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend short, predictable texts on familiar topics in different media and technologies
EN1-6B
old
Recognises a range of purposes and audiences for spoken language and recognises organisational patterns and features of predictable spoken texts
ENE-PHOAW-01
new
Identifies, blends, segments and manipulates phonological units in spoken words as a strategy for reading and creating texts
EN1-OLC-01
new
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
EN1-VOCAB-01
new
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
EN1-UARL-01
new
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Extensions
Have students create their own alliterating sentence.
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