Why the Author Used Alliteration

Read the poem aloud together before your child answers. For each saying, ask when someone might say it in real life. Check with the answer key and compare your child's explanations with the samples.

Find four examples of alliteration in an original passage about a market day and explain two. Alliteration is when words close together begin with the same sound. Authors use it to draw attention, set a mood or copy a sound. The directions on the page read: Read the passage. Then, turn the page and find the alliteration. On page 2: Look back at the passage on page 1. Then, write four examples of alliteration from it. Then, explain why the author used two of them. The answer key covers the questions on page 2.

Yes, both. We made it for 5th Grade figurative language, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

CCSS L.5.5.A asks 5th graders to interpret similes and metaphors in context, and L.5.5.B covers idioms, adages and proverbs. Sound devices like alliteration and onomatopoeia often come up in the poetry unit, and puns and oxymorons show how writers play with meaning.

An idiom is a phrase whose meaning differs from its words, like on thin ice. An adage or proverb is a well-known saying that gives advice, like don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Ask two questions: what two things are compared, and what do they have in common? In the river is a silver thread, both are long, thin and shiny. That answer is the meaning.

Sixteen of the twenty sheets have an answer key, with sample answers for the written explanations. Revise With Alliteration, Write Your Own Puns, Write Sentences With Oxymorons and Figurative Language Revision have no key, since every child's writing is different.