One focus for our Writing Workshop is to use descriptive language. We need to be able to think and then write our ideas using really interesting words.

Tongue Twisters are sentences and sometimes poems that use consonants strung together to make interesting tongue curling phrases which when spoken fast tie our tongues in knots.

This putting together of  consonants is also called Alliteration.

In our Tongue Twisters we had to have:

A noun:  name of a person, place ot thing;

A verb:  an action word, a doing word;

An adverb:  a word that makes a verb more interesting, often they end in ..ly;

An Adjective: a word that adds description to a noun.

We read tongue twisters on Nanas Corner.

Animalia by Graeme Base is filled with amazing tongue tying phrases as well brilliant pictures of animals, people and places.

Here are some of our first efforts:

Tommie tortoise was taught to talk to Terence turtle.

Lion loved laughing on the lake.

Baby baboon bakes brown bread.

Jemima

 

Rhino runs around rivers.

Slithery snakes slither through slightly long grass.

Toothless tiger can’t bite through tough things.

Hungry hippo hopped into hopeless things.

Paul

 

Proud parrot pranced proudly past prickly plants.

Viscious vulture versed the Vampire.

Josephine