Ad-Lib Stories: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives and Adverbs
Get ready to laugh! A rollicking tale of a kitty trying to earn the title Hunter Cat is even better with your students’ choice of adjectives and adverbs.
This lesson teaches your students to pay attention to small words, such as adjectives, adverbs, and verbs, to make a big difference in reading comprehension! Use as a stand-alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for *Close Reading: Introduction*.
All the adverbs in this worksheet tell how often an action happens. Help your child get to know adverbs of frequency with this fill in the blanks worksheet.
Can your child think of words to describe how a giraffe jumps or a horse trots? Teach them all about adverbs with help from this creative grammar worksheet.
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.
Adverbs can express location, time, frequency, manner, or degree. In this exercise, students will identify at least seven adverbs of each kind and sort them into a graphic organizer
In this word-sort worksheet, students will review the different kinds of adverbs, then cut out adverbs and sort into columns to indicate whether they tell how, when, or where.
Describe what's happening in the script! Use this lesson to help your ELs describe events in a drama. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support to the lesson Summer Drama.
Can your child think of a few adverbs to describe the actions of the people in this worksheet? They'll gain a better understanding of adverbs as they work.
An adverb is a part of speech that modifies, or changes the meaning of, a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a noun phrase, a clause, or even a whole sentence. Teaching kids how to use adverbs properly will give them the tools to jazz up their language. Use our resources below to start building their adverb vocabulary.
Learn More About Adverbs
The definition of an adverb is broad, but it’s helpful to think of it as giving us extra information about the other parts of speech. So while a verb tells us an action, an adverb gives us the character of that action. It often ends in the suffix “-ly” so it’s easy to identify. It expresses manner, place, time, frequency, level of certainty and more.
Some common examples are: carefully, beautifully, angrily, stupidly, loudly, rapidly
Adverbs, or adverbial clauses and phrases, also answer these questions: How? When? Where? Why? To what extent?
Some of the different kinds of adverbs include:
Adverbs of manner describe how something happens.
Example: I ate my sandwich quickly.
Adverbs of time indicate when things happen.
Example: I will clean my room tomorrow.
Adverbs of place describe where the action happened.
Example: I left my book upstairs.
Adverbs of purpose tell us why something happens.
Example: I ate the sandwich because I was hungry.
Adverbs of completeness tells us the extent of the action.
Example: I am almost finished with my homework.
Adverbs of frequency tell us how often something happens.
Example: My sister is always late.
Without adverbs, our language would be lackluster. Having a greater understanding of how they can enhance our sentences will make writing fun for kids. Try our worksheets, activities and games, and watch their imaginations flourish.