Over the past few weeks, we have been doing a Chris van Allsburg author study. In class, we read one of his books, The Z was Zapped. The story is set as a play where each letter is involved in some sort of action. That action begins with the same letter. One example would be “The A was in the Avalanche.” This is called an alliteration. As a class project, each student picked a letter, created their own alliteration, and then illustrated that alliteration. Below is our result!
What other alliterations can you come up with?
What did you think about the illustrations in The Z was Zapped?
Dear Mr. Avery,
I thought of another alliteration! The big bad bear ate a big bowl of bananas.
From,
Mike
Dear Mr. Avery,
I think that everyone did an amazing job! The book turned out great!
From,
Mike
Dear Mr. Avery,
I thought of another alliteration, the B was buzzing buy a beautiful bee.
Sincerely,
Ben W.
Dear Mr. Avery’s Class,
You did a wonderful job thinking of adjectives.
Sincerely,
Ben W.
Dear Mr. Avery,
Even though I’m not in your class I have a alliteration for you and it includes one of my class’ spelling words. I don’t know if your class has lesson 7 but it has embrace. My alliteration is Erica was embraced by the easily excited Emily.
Sincerely,
Tristan B.
@Tristan – I’m glad you were able to come up with an alliteration Tristan! It’s great that you were able to use a spelling word in there too. I think it’s wonderful when we can get our spelling words correct for our test. I think it’s even better when we can use them in our writing! Keep up the great work!
@Rebecca – I love how you used one of our spelling words in that alliteration! That’s a great way to use keen!
@Marshall – That definitely ties into our emotion writing. All of you did a wonderful job with that!
Dear Mr. Avery,
I thought of another alliteration. The raged R raddled and rumbled while rolling. It also ties into our emotion writings.
Sincerely ,
Marshall
Dear Mr. Avery,
I think the illustrations were great. I love the way that we shaded. I thought of another alliteration, the kind K kissed the keen kitten.
Your student,
Rebecca A.
@Joe, Tristan, Emily, and Emily – Thanks! I know that everyone worked really hard on those. I thought they did a great job with the shading. All of yours are great too! I thought your alliterations were amazing. I also love the way Mrs. Reynold’s made your bulletin board look like a stage with curtains! Keep up the great work!
Sincerely,
Mr. Avery
Dear Mr. Avery,
Your class did an astounding job in ”The Z Was Zapped”. You can really tell how much pride and effort they put into their work. My letter was T and my sentence was The T was terribly tatterd. Keep up the good work Mr. Avery’s classs!
your student,
Emily B.
Dear Mr. Avery,
I really liked how your class did The Z Was Zapped. They put a lot of effort into it and had excellent detail. The letter I did was E and my sentence was the E exploded from electricity. Your class did really well.
Sincerely,
Emily M.
Dear Mr. Avery
The Z was Zapped was excellent! I like the illustrations. It was all black and white and it had so much detail so it was super hard to draw! The letter that I did was M. The sentence was Mrs. M was married to Mr. M. That was one of my ideas that I came up with. Mr. Avery, Chris Van Allsburg is a very talented and detailed artist!
Sincerely,
Tristan
Dear Mr. Avery,
I thought the illustrations in The Z was Zapped were great!
Sincerely,
Joe D.
Dear Mr. Avery,
The alliteration book made by the students in your class was great. Ingenious introduction to alliteration illustration!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Lavigne
Dear Mr. Avery,
I came up with 2 alliterations. The pretty and perfect P was picking perfect peaches. Also, the excellent E was exploding from an erupting volcano. I love the illustration because he used shading with his pictures.
Sincerely,
Natalie S
Dear Mr. Avery’s class,
I thought the pictures were all beautiful! They should all be published!
Sincerely,
Jennifer C.
@Jacquelyn – Thanks! Your class did an amazing job with you alliterations too! What was the one that you came up with?
Dear Mr. Avery’s Class,
I thought your scenes from the Z was Zapped were very creative. Keep up the fantastic work!
Sincerely,
Jacquelyn D.
@Amanda – One of my favorite things about The Z was Zapped was the way that Chris van Allsburg shaded in his pictures. He did an amazing job without using any color at all!
@Jenna – You did a great job with your alliterations! I thought the A was amazing in American Idol also. Who knew it had such a great voice!
@Rebecca – That’s a great alliteration Rebecca! I wonder if we could add even more p words to it. The picky, purple painted P patiently piled on perfectly pristine pickles!
Dear Mr. Avery,
I just thought of another alliteration, here it is, The picky P piled on pickles.
Sincerely,
Rebecca A.
Dear Mr. Avery,
I loved the Z was zapped book and slide show. I had the two letters N and A. My alliteration for N was The n was quietly napping. The one for A was The A was amazing in American Idol. He made his pictures look amazing.
From,
Jenna
Dear Mr. Avery,
I thought of another alliteration! We could have done, the A made an amazing alliteration. I loved the pictures because each letter was involved in an action. He made each picture look like there was a stage and an audience. He used shading to make his pictures look detailed.
Sincerely,
Amanda K.