Tongue Twisters

It was great to be back at Hale Elementary. We hadn’t seen each other since before Christmas Break. For our 11th poetry session, after school 3rd-5th graders explored alliteration. Alliteration is when you repeat words with the same consonant sounds in a sentence. Alliteration is often used in tongue twisters, which are phrases that sound silly and are often hard to articulate.

This week we read “Picture, Puzzle, Piece,” by Shel Silverstein and “Slippery, Sloppery,” by David Williams. In both poems living and non living things are described using alliteration, such as the big bouncy belly of Bobo the Bear and a slippery snail that slithered slim and slid on the floor. Inspired by Williams and Silverstein we rose to the challenge of using alliteration to not only write a group poem about lost objects but also individual tongue twisters.

So, readers try not to become tongue tied when you read out loud these tongue twisters!