Amazing Adjectives

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by Dee Mulhern

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Grade
First Grade
Subject
Reading & writingGrammarAdjectives
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Materials and preparation

 Index cards with nouns and adjectives

 Paper
 Write Your Own worksheet

Key terms

 adjectives

Learning Objectives
 Students will be able to use adjectives to describe a noun.

Introduction

(10 minutes)

 Gather students together and show them a picture of an interesting object or scene.
 Encourage students to describe the picture with different words.
 Tell students that today they will learn about words we can use to describe things.

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

(10 minutes)

 Tell students that when we describe nouns we use words called adjectives.
 Hold another picture up. Model using your senses to describe the picture. List the senses
on the board and the corresponding adjective.
 Tell students that good writers use a wide variety of adjectives.
 Give two more examples.

Guided Practice

(15 minutes)

 Have students work in pairs to brainstorm a list of adjectives.

 Have students list the adjectives on cards.
 Combine the cards with the cards you previously made.
 Have students pick up two or three adjective card and combine them with a noun.
 Have students work together to put the adjectives and nouns into a sentence with an
illustration.

Independent working time

(15 minutes)
 Have students select at least two adjectives and a noun to write a sentence about and
illustrate.
 Have students complete the Write Your Own worksheet.

Differentiation

 Enrichment: Challenge students to write sentences using additional adjectives. Have

students identify adjectives used in classroom texts or independent reading books.
 Support: Have students select one adjective and noun to work with at a time.

Assessment

(15 minutes)

 Circulate as students work.

 Collect the students’ work to assess for mastery.

Review and closing

(5 minutes)

 Draw students back together. Review the purpose of adjectives.

 Have students share some of the sentences and illustrations.