Mixing Alliteration & Rhymes

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Ann Kennedy on behalf of expertvillage.com and this session we'll be talking about rhyming and reading games. More tongue twisters. Are they important? Yes yes yes yes yes. Rhymes are important but rhymes are a little bit easier to say. Tongue twisters make the child work, every part of their mouth, enunciation, articulation, pronunciation, hearing sounds and they're tough but they're fun and we laugh with them. Something as simple as Peter Briggs Pat's Pigs. We learn to pronounce. This particular, I'll call it a little poem. A wise old owl, we can see the alliteration. A wise old owl sat in an oak, this uses alliteration. The more he heard the less he spoke, the less he spoke the more he heard why aren't we all like the wise old owl? Is that a tongue twister? No. Is that something that is so appropriate to teach? Yes. And does it teach listening skills and give a little moral value, yes. But know what you're teaching and why you're teaching it. Your tongue twisters, as you get into different letters, for example your b's, or your p's, try to come up with one or two little tongue twisters that coincide with that letter and know the difference when you're teaching a fun rhyme, alliteration or a tongue twister that stretches the tongue and twists it all about."