Title – Tongue Twisters

By – Ryla Pollan

Primary Subject – Language Arts

Grade Level – 3-8

Students not only have fun with this creative writing activity, but they also review several parts of speech!

MATERIALS:

* pencil and paper

METHOD:

1. Start with sharing some well-known tongue twisters with your students. They get really involved as they try to repeat them and share others. Next, challenge your students to write their own tongue twisters. I use this model to get them started:
* Nouns – use at least one (Betty)

* Verbs – use at least one (bought)

* Adjectives – use several (brainy, billion, big, Buicks, black)

* Adverbs – use at least one (busily)

* Prepositional Phrases – use at least one (by the bay)

2. Using this model, we now have a tongue twister: Brainy Betty busily bought a billion, big, black Buicks by the bay.

3. Have students write several. Let them go through the peer editing process. Then print final copies to display on a bulletin board or put them together for a class book.

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