1. Repetition of beginning sounds in neighboring words
Alliteration
Repetition of beginning sounds in neighboring words
Mrs. Benson’s Bunch Begged Boldly for Bags of Bagels…

2. Examples of Alliteration…
Betty Botter by Mother Goose
Betty Botter bought some butter, but, she said, the butter’s bitter; if I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter, but a bit of better butter will make my batter better. So she bought a bit of butter better than her bitter butter, and she put it in her batter and the batter was not bitter. So ’twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter
Cory collected cola cans counting continuously
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

3. Some More… Dr. Seuss Poem…
baby blues
fall head over heals
baby boomer
fan the flames
back breaker
fickle finger of fate
bad blood
fuss and feathers
belle of the ball
green as grass
best buddies
hale and hearty
bite the bullet
hard headed
blind as a bat
have a heart
bounce back
have high hopes
by the book
hit the hay
cat cries
live and learn
cut corners
make merry
cash cow
money makers
close call
more the merrier
cold as a cucumber
poor but proud
crack the code
sink or swim
cream of the crop
watchful waiting
cuts to the core
weary warriors
dead as a doornail
do or die
Dr. Seuss Poem…
Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees’ cheese freeze. That’s what made these three free fleas sneeze.

4. Choose a letter of the Alphabet
Create your own Alliteration…
You may write a Poem and illustrate it, a Sentence and illustrate it, then we are going to make a video of you reading it, acting it out or a powerpoint animating it 
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE FUN WITH ALLITERATION!

5. Let's Practice…