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. 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.