Lesson 5: Blueberry pizza – connotation and alliteration
Learning Intention: We are learning to explore how creative language, imagery and symbol improve our enjoyment in texts.
Success Criteria:
Students can:
- use wordplay such as rhyme and alliteration to evoke enjoyment
- create a simple sentence, that includes imagery
- follow three-part instructions to create an image
- respond to spoken questions.
Alliteration repeats the sound at the beginning of words. For example, glibbity globbity glibbity and beep bop.
Alliteration is used by authors to create positive feelings, for example, sunshine Sam and lovable Lucy.
Authors can use alliteration to make a reader think and fellin a particular way, sometimes this may be negative.
Thumbs-up-thumbs-down: How do these phrases make you feel?
Do you like slimy smelly socks?
Do you like stinky sticky sneakers?
Do you like crunchy caramel cake?
Do you like luscious lollypops?
Do you like muddy marshmallows?
Imagery through engaging senses: Can you smell and almost feel the slimy smelly socks? Encourage students to think of their own simple alliterations to create positive or negative feelings.
Activity:Revisit the page, ‘And my head is made of blueberry pizza’. Think aloud that the author is describing a pizza head, and ask what students think a pizza head looks, feels, smells, and tastes like.
Using ‘thinking partners’, students think of a pizza or sandwich head and share what they see, hear, taste, and feel.
Draw, Talk, Write, Share
Model drawing a pizza or sandwich head with labels next to the features of the image. Model spoken alliterative phrases such as muddy mouth, enormous ears, egg eyes, nutty nose.
Students draw and label their image of a pizza or sandwich head.
Students write a simple sentence.
This is my pizza head.
As a class, students compare their images. Discuss how everyone visualises things differently.