ELA-FigLang-Allit-LNF

Sound Devices and Figurative Language - Alliteration - Print - Literary Nonfiction Resources
  
 * K-2**
 * //Aster Aardvark's Alphabet Adventures,// by Stephen Kellogg. 0-688-07256-9. Alliterative text presenting animals alphabetically, from A to Z.
 * //Forest Bright, Forest Night//,  by Jennifer Ward. 9781584690672. Integrate Science and ELA as this non-fiction picture book describe nocturnal and diurnal animals using poetic language and alliteration - //"Chatter and chase ...////"Scurry and scramble ... "//


 * //If You Were Alliteration//, Trisha Speed Shaskan, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4048-4097-3 This resource can be read as a literary text, - "If you were alliteration, you could create tongue twisters-. She sells seashells by the seashore." - index, fact boxes, etc.


 * //Vulture View, by April Pulley Sayre. 9780805075571. ////A sparsely worded picture book with information about vultures and alliterative descriptions: //"sniff, search, seek/for foods that . . . /REEK!"
 * //Trout are Made of Trees,// by April Pulley Sayre. 1580891373. This terrific ELA/Science resource provides a wonderful description of the life cycle of a trout, with plenty of alliteration - "snag and settle soggily," and shrimp and stoneflies shred leaves." And other forms of figurative language are used in this book.


 * 3-5**


 * //The Circus of Words: Acrobatic Anagrams, Parading Palindromes, Wonderful Words on a Wire, and More Lively Letter Play,// by Richard Lederer. 1556523807. This book provides examples and lessons on many different word activities, including alliteration.


 * //If You Were Alliteration//, Trisha Speed Shaskan, 2008, . ISBN 978-1-4048-4097-3 This resource can be read as a literary text, - "If you were alliteration, you could create tongue twisters-. She sells seashells by the seashore." - index, fact boxes, etc.


 * //Journey around Washington, D.C. from A to Z, by Martha Day Zschock. 1-889833-62-2// An alliterative tour around the nation's capital with short sentences, such as "A" page reads, "America’s anthem awakens awe." Each page also features a paragraph of history. Great to merge ELA and Social Studies.


 * //Vulture View, by April Pulley Sayre. 9780805075571. ////A sparsely worded picture book with information about vultures and alliterative descriptions: //"sniff, search, seek/for foods that . . . /REEK!"