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Grade 4

KAS ELA Standard: L.4.3

Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading or listening.

Advanced Alliteration and Consonance

Advanced Alliteration and Consonance

When students learn about alliteration, it’s hard to steer them away from goofy tongue-twisters. Certainly, there must be more powerful and practical ways of using alliteration. In this lesson, I draw on delicious examples from Shakespeare to show how a very advanced writer used alliteration. Then, I break those ideas down so students can try them out.