Year 1 English · AC9E1LE04

Listen to and discuss poems, chants, rhymes and songs, and imitate and invent sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme

Poems, chants, rhymes and songs often use sound patterns such as rhyme and alliteration. Students can imitate and invent those patterns

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1. Outcome Overview & Core Concepts

Poems, chants, rhymes and songs often use sound patterns such as rhyme and alliteration. Students can imitate and invent those patterns.

Learning target: listen to and discuss poems, chants, rhymes and songs, and imitate and invent sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme

Big idea: Listen, imitate and invent alliteration and rhyme

Learning routine: Listen → Find sound pattern → Imitate → Invent → Perform

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2. Subject-Specific Content & Key Examples

Rhyme and alliteration are sound choices

rhyme: bee/treealliteration: silly snakebeat: clap-clap-rest

Worked example

Question: “busy buzzing bees” uses alliteration because several words begin with the /b/ sound.

Keep the sound pattern going

choose a soundrepeat itswap wordsperform with rhythm

Sound hunt

Find repeated first sounds in a line.

Guided practice

  1. Sound hunt — Find repeated first sounds in a line.
    big blue bird
  2. Rhyme chain — Make a chain of words that rhyme.
    light / night / bright
  3. Invent a chant — Create a two-line chant with one repeated sound.
    Tap the table, tap the tin.
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AC9E1LE04 - Listen to and discuss poems, chants, rhymes and songs, and imitate and invent sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme
Example 1

Rhyme and alliteration are sound choices rhyme: bee/tree alliteration: silly snake beat: clap-clap-rest

Example 2

Worked example Question: “busy buzzing bees” uses alliteration because several words begin with the /b/ sound.

Example 3

Keep the sound pattern going choose a sound repeat it swap words perform with rhythm

Example 4

Sound hunt Find repeated first sounds in a line.

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Curriculum Coverage & Elaborations

The content description is the required target. The elaborations below are taught as examples and contexts, not as disconnected checklist wording.

  • E1: listening to performance poetry, chants or songs from First Nations Australians (teaching context)
  • E2: exploring poetry, chants and songs from Asian cultures
  • E3: listening to haiku poems about familiar topics such as nature and the seasons
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Revision Notes

  • Remember: Listen, imitate and invent alliteration and rhyme
  • Use the routine: Listen → Find sound pattern → Imitate → Invent → Perform
  • Before answering: point to the clue in the spoken words, written sentence, image, page layout or text purpose.
  • Self-check: change the example slightly and see whether the same reasoning still works.
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3. Common Student Misconceptions

  • Alliteration = same letter only: Listen for same sound, not just same spelling.
  • Rhyme = same first sound: Rhyme is usually ending sound.
  • No performance: Say it aloud to hear the pattern.

Practice Thought & Formative Assessment

Use a fresh, code-aligned example. The student should show the exact word, sound, sentence, image feature, audience clue or text evidence that supports the answer.

Quick checks

  • Which uses alliteration: lazy lion or cat hat?
  • Give a rhyme for day.
  • What is a chant?
  • Invent two words starting with /s/.

Mastery evidence

  • Hear rhyme
  • Hear alliteration
  • Imitate pattern
  • Invent pattern
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1. Outcome Overview & Core Concepts

Poems, chants, rhymes and songs often use sound patterns such as rhyme and alliteration. Students can imitate and invent those patterns.

Learning target: listen to and discuss poems, chants, rhymes and songs, and imitate and invent sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme

Big idea: Listen, imitate and invent alliteration and rhyme

Learning routine: Listen → Find sound pattern → Imitate → Invent → Perform

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