PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Seven Selfish Shellfish
This video segment from Between the Lions features a classic tongue twister: a type of wordplay that helps children tune their ears to language and the sounds within words. [0:29]
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Beowulf Introduction
This is an introduction to Beowulf, an epic and alliterative poem in the Old English from the 11th century. It features a link to the British Library with an image of the manuscript and information about Beowulf.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Bass Drum
Read about the percussion family of the orchestra. Find out how the bass drum helps the sound of the orchestra. Use RealAudio or Windows Media Player to listen to the bass drum.
ESL4kids
The Efl Playhouse: Chants
This is not your typical a, b, c nursery rhyme song. This site presents a short and fun outline of many different chants, songs and exercises.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Noodle Alliteration
This activity allows students an opportunity to explore the dictionary and thesaurus to write creative alliterations about pasta after reading Jack Prelutsky's poem, "Spaghetti, Spaghetti."
Writing Fix
Writingfix: Alliteration Potluck
In this lesson plan, Potluck by Anne Shelby, is used as a mentor text for word choice. The content focus of the lesson is to highlight alliteration. Each student will use alliteration in a sentence as the student include his/her name, a...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Guide to Black History: Berry Gordy, Jr.
This entry from Encyclopedia Brittanica's Guide to Black History features Berry Gordy, Jr., an American businessman, founder of the Motown Record Corporation (1959), which became the most successful black-owned music company in the...
My Hero Project
My Hero: Langston Hughes
This introduction to the life and writing of Langston Hughes profiles the poet who emerged with the Harlem Renaissance to earn "a place amongst the greatest poets America has ever produced."
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Scholastic
Scholastic: Chants and Street Rhymes [Pdf]
Four pages of with chants and street rhymes. Three of the pages are reproducible examples and information useful to young scholars, and one page gives lesson ideas for teachers.