Technology-Connected Lesson Plan

Title: Alliteration

Grade Levels: K-6

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Colorado Academic Content Standards:

Curriculum Area: Reading and Writing

  • STANDARD 1:  Students read and understand a variety of materials.
    • use comprehension skills such as previewing, predicting, inferring, comparing and contrasting, re-reading and self-monitoring, summarizing, identifying the author's purpose, determining the main idea, and applying knowledge of foreshadowing, metaphor, simile, symbolism, and other figures of speech;
    • using a full range of strategies to comprehend materials such as directions, nonfiction material, rhymes and poems, and stories. (K-4)
  • STANDARD 2: Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and

audiences.

    • write and speak for a variety of purposes such as telling stories, presenting analytical responses to literature, conveying technical information, explaining concepts and procedures, and persuading; organize written and oral presentations using strategies such as lists, outlining, cause/effect relationships, comparison/contrast, problem/solution, and narration;
  • STANDARD 5: Students read to locate, select, and make use of relevant information from a variety of media, reference, and technological sources.
    • using organizational features to locate media or electronic information (for example, passwords, entry menu features, pull-down menus, icons, key word searches);
  • STANDARD 6: Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience.
    • know and use literary terminology;

 

Technology Connection:

·        PowerPoint

·        Web sites:

·        Vocabulary of Alliteration http://www.xs4all.nl/~in/Poet/VocAll.htm

·        Brayford Alliteration http://www.highbray.demon.co.uk/allit.htm

·        Trumpeting T’s and Dancing D.s http://www.instantkidsbooks.com/Alliteration.htm

 

Assessment:

·        Slide Show (Rubric)

 

Teacher Background Information:

Alliteration is one of several aural devices in literature making use of the repetition of single sounds or groups of sounds. It is quite often believed to be nothing else than the repetition of word-initial sounds, especially consonants

·        Example:
In clichés: sweet smell of success, a dime a dozen, bigger and better, jump for joy
Wordsworth: And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind.

·        The matching or repetition of consonants is called alliteration, or the repeating of the same letter (or sound) at the beginning of words following each other immediately or at short intervals.

·        A famous example is to be found in the two lines by Tennyson:

The moan of doves in immemorial elms,
And murmuring of innumerable bees.

·        The ancient poets often used alliteration instead of rhyme; in Beowulf there are three alliterations in every line. For example:

Now Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings, Leader beloved, and long he ruled In fame with all folk since his father had gone . . .

·        Modern poets also avail themselves of alliteration, especially as a substitute for rhyme. Edwin Markham's "Lincoln, the Man of the People" is in unrhymed blank verse, but there are many lines as alliterative as:

She left the Heaven of Heroes and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need A man to match the mountains and the sea The friendly welcome of the wayside well

 

Procedures:

·        Read a book on Alliteration (example:  Animalia by Graeme Base).  Also look at the web page: Brayford Alliteration http://www.highbray.demon.co.uk/allit.htm

·        Look at http://www.instantkidsbooks.com/Alliteration.htm and finish the sentences

·        Discuss the story and the literary device, alliteration, found on many pages.

·        Each student will be assigned a letter (s) of the alphabet.

·        Each student will write and illustrate a sentence (or sentences) which names a letter of the alphabet. The sentence should have subject, verb, describing words, and be alliterative.

·        Students will use a storyboard to plan a slide for their letter sentence.

·        Students will use peer editors to check for grammar, parts of speech, and mechanics.

·        Students will use PowerPoint and their storyboards to create a slide. This may be done during learning centers, or individually during class time.

·        The teacher will compile all slides into a class slide show.

·        The whole class will view the completed slide show.

·        Each group will then decide on a theme and create one PowerPoint presentation of their alliteration.  Minimum of 7 slides (includes title slide).  Each slide should include a graphic, transitions, and custom animation.  Be creative.  Also, do not forget all the graphics from the Internet – use animated gifs!  Use the rubric as a guide for developing your PowerPoint Presentations.

 

Materials:

·        Book Examples:  Animalia by Graeme Base; An Alphabet Book of Cats and Dogs by Sheila Moxley

·        Storyboard

·        Assessment tool

A All of us are awfully annoying alligators.