Alliteration PowerPoint Lesson

This resource contains a 40-slide PowerPoint lesson on alliteration. It includes an explanation of alliteration and many examples:

from literature - (Harry Potter)
poetry ( The Highwayman, The Listeners, Kubla Khan, Cargoes, Sea Fever, The Ancient Mariner)
the commercial world
in speeches

Opportunities are also provided within the PowerPoint for pupils to identify alliteration and to create sentences/phrases containing alliteration using images as a stimulus.

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Alliteration - Set of 18 Worksheets

This resource contains a set of 18 worksheets on identifying and using the literary device of alliteration.

Tasks include:

Identifying alliteration in sentences and poetry and literature from Harry Potter, The Highwayman, The Listeners, Kubla Khan, Cargoes, Sea Fever and The Ancient Mariner.

Writing sentences and short paragraphs containing alliteration. The paragraphs include six scenes to encourage the use of alliteration - poppy field, fireworks, busy street, ice cream, spider’s web and snow covered tree.

Designing and creating product names and catchy slogans for a shampoo, canned drink and chocolate bar using alliteration.

Alliteration Posters

This resource contains a set of 35, A3-size posters on alliteration. They contain examples of alliteration from poetry, literature, - The Listeners (Walter De La Mare), The Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), Harry Potter (J K Rowling), Sea Fever (John Masefield), Cargoes (John Masefield) , Kubla Khan (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) and The Raven (Edgar Allen Poe).

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