Creature Alliteration Poem

1. Creature Alliteration Poem

2. What is an alliteration? An alliteration is when a sentence or phrase mostly begins with the same letter or sound. *Dunkin Donuts *Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August. *Garry’s giraffe gobbled gooseberry’s greedily, getting good at grabbing goodies.

3. Practice Time! • We are going to take five minutes to practice writing our own alliterations before we take on a whole poem! • You need to have at least five words or more in your alliteration. • Three words must begin with the same letter or sound.

4. Monster Example! This is a recticarian. A recticarian lives on really ridiculous rectangular ranches is rural Russia. A recticarian rudely eats rice, raspberries, radishes, roots, and rhubarb. A recticarian likes rusty things, Rhode Island, Rottweilers, and ravens. A recticarian wore a rickety pair of roller blades and rafted down the roaring Roseburg River. My recticarian rolled red roses over the rug in my room and ruined it.

5. Buzzlebop This is a buzzlebop. A buzzlebop lives on a bumpy bubble over a bunk of babbling babies. A buzzlebop eats bumble bees that buzz, bunches of bananas, bamboo, and buttered bark. A buzzlebop likes to bamboozle babies, bite bark, and big black bugs. A buzzlebop did a back flip wearing binoculars into a bicycle and bumped the biker. My buzzlebop bagged a bunch of balls and bounced them down the back of my barn.

6. Now, it’s your turn. Line 1: Name your creature. Line 2: Tell where your creature lives. Line 3: Tell what your creature eats. Line 4: Tell what your creature likes. Line 5: Tell something about your creature. Line 6: Tell something your creature did to you.