How to Teach Children Alliteration

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Ann Kennedy on behalf of expertvillage.com and this session we'll be talking about rhyming and reading games. All about alliteration. Alliteration is part of rhyming but it's a little bit different. As we looked at the book, Hop on Pop. Does that rhyme? Of course it rhymes but it's not alliteration. Alliteration is dog drum, it's your initial sounds are the same. The alphabet book begins to teach children sounds or any type of alphabet and it uses alliteration. As you hit your middle grades, you learn a lot in school about powerful writing entails alliteration. Great poets, great literary geniuses always used alliteration which is choosing words that use the initial sounds. Example in this particular case, it's something as simple as a horse on house, and it's a good way to also point out letters. This particular alphabet book chose to use a lot of alliteration where your child starts seeing to be able to decode, that these two sounds or letters are the same. For example a skunk, which is a fun one, on scooter. It's your s sound. Alliteration is not bow wow wow, alliteration would be as simple as elephant on eggs. Elephant e, eggs e. Goose with a guitar, the g g. So alliteration, what makes it different than your regular rhyming of bow wow or Jack and Jill went up the hill, is your initial sounds are the same and that's when you're teaching a lot about sounds so that's all about alliteration."