When your students read this silly poem, they will find examples of hyperbole. Then, they will make a connection to another language concept: superlatives!
Here's to the Negative Nancy in all of us! Your child will help choose a negative adjective to describe some bad musical performers and build vocabulary.
Use this resource to practice close reading in a fictional text. Your students will look at the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs that give more details about the important story elements.
Adjectives help make the English language vibrant and descriptive. Kids will use their vocabularies to think up and apply different adjectives for each object.
Help your child practice using adjectives to describe their friends and family, and they'll write three acrostic poems using the letters from each person's name.
Lunchtime means story time in this fill-in-the-blanks worksheet! Early writers can use their creativity to come up with the right word to finish each sentence.
Give your child adjective practice with this simple worksheet. After filling in the blanks, they'll see how many different adjectives they can add to the list.
Diagramming sentences is an important skill for beginning writers, and a great way to review parts of speech. Diagram a passage from Wizard of Oz for practice!
Which traits do your students share with their favorite characters? Find out as you introduce new adjectives! This lesson can be used alone or with the lesson plan All About Me: Character Traits.
An adjective is a part of speech that modifies or describes a noun or a pronoun, such as the way something feels, looks, sounds or tastes. It answers questions like Which one? What kind? How many? It’s important to note that adjectives do not modify verbs, adverbs or other adjectives. There are countless adjectives to describe things, and you can teach students how to use them in their own writing using our resources and tools.
Learn More About Adjectives
If nouns are the thing, adjectives describe what that thing is like. Think of adjectives as activating our senses. Here are some common examples that we use every day to describe nouns and pronouns:
Person or personality: smart, rich, romantic, sassy, naughty
Adjectives have three degrees of comparison called positive, comparative and superlative. Regular adjectives with one syllable make their comparative and superlative forms by adding “er” and “est.”