One of the most popular group games for alliteration is the classic "I'm going on a picnic." This game can help students with memory recall and also with learning adjectives. In order to orient the game toward alliteration, each child should use two words. The teacher can start with "I am going on a picnic, and I am bringing..." and choose a noun that starts with A, and an adjective to modify it, for example "abstract art." Students can also work together in teams to come up with objects and adjectives. Another option for a team game is storytelling in which each student or group of students adds a line to the story; each sentence should include alliteration, so students can learn to use it as a literary tool to strengthen a story or poem.
Some students learn better by working alone or by writing things down. Students can work on alliteration by playing poetry games they will later share with the class. Have them take their name and make a sentence full of alliteration based on each letter. For example, Mary could write, "Mary makes muffins" for the first letter of her name. Alternatively, each student could choose a letter or pick one randomly from a hat and write an alliterative poem based on that letter.
Give students or groups of students a poem or a passage from a text. Have them highlight as many alliteration examples as possible. Each team can be rewarded with one point for each example. At the end of all the rounds, tally up the points and offer a reward such as going first in line, no homework, or extra credit. Students can also take passages and change descriptions to alliteration with the same game format.
Alliteration games involving speaking aloud promote mastery of alliteration and help enunciation and confidence when speaking in front of the class. Students can compete to see who can say a tongue twisted (such as the classic "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers") the fastest. There will need to be an unbiased judge for this game and the judge should use a stopwatch and a close ear to determine the winner. Students can also make up their own tongue twisters to use.