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5th Grade Adjectives Learning Resources

Totally awesome! Fifth graders love colorful language, so they will enjoy these Education.com resources that teach them how to identify and use adjectives. Interactive exercises help students identify adjectives and adverbs. Worksheets give students practice brainstorming adjectives and adding adjectives to sentences. In addition to teaching adjectives, you may want to review these adverb resources with your students.

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Adjectives

Saturday Mystery: Choosing Adjectives and Adverbs

Kids fill in the blanks with corresponding adverbs and adjectives in this fun detective story.

Adding Adjectives

Time to saddle up some adjectives! Descriptive language adds interest to writing. Your little cowpoke can practice adding adjectives to a paragraph.

Using Adjectives and Verbs to Make Writing Come to Life

Imagery is one of the most important tools in a narrative writer's arsenal. In this lesson, students will will learn to craft vivid scenes by selecting powerful verbs and adjectives, as well as to critique descriptive writing using the same criteria.

What Sounds Better? Verbs and Adjectives

Encourage students to explore the impact of using vivid verbs and adjectives on a simple description, then practice revising a phrase on their own.

Precise Punctuation

Two kids and a mad scientist go on a grammar adventure in this punctuation workbook! Learn comma placement, writing titles, and sentence structure as this time-traveling trio hops across decades.

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.

Imagery Using Verbs and Adjectives

This exercise will provide the opportunity for students to practice revising vague descriptions using more powerful verbs and adjectives.

Writers' Building Blocks

Here is some basic training for every budding author. This series focuses on the pre-writing and organization stages of writing, including sequencing stories, making outlines and researching.

Varsity Parts of Speech Review

By the upper grades, students are pretty familiar with nouns, verbs, and adjectives. This rich, engaging varsity-level review incorporates the lesser-studied parts of speech: articles, prepositions, adverbs, and superlative adjectives.

Who Will Score the Most? Comparative and Superlative Adjective Game

Score as many points as you can by heeding the coach’s advice! Students will score points for each correct comparative and superlative.

Advanced Alliteration Tongue Twisters: "F"

Frantic flamingos frequently flounder! Fill in the blanks of this alliteration worksheet to make a funny story, featuring the letter "F".

Fact & Opinion Adjectives

Students will use an adjective word bank to help them identify statements of fact and opinion.

More Hyperbole in Poetry

When your students read this silly poem, they will find examples of hyperbole. Then, they will make a connection to another language concept: superlatives!

Show What You Know About Comparative & Superlative Adjectives

Assess your students’ knowledge of comparative and superlative adjectives.

Comparative and Superlative Adjectives 3

This is one of the best exercises on comparative and superlative adjectives because it is clearer and easier to understand.

Adjective or Adverb (Adjectives - Other) 3

Add more adjectives to the list of words your students are familiar with by assigning this simple exercise.

Descriptive Words

Kids will get to explore adjectives and descriptive words in this worksheet where three time travelers visit the future and try to describe the things they see.

Adjectives to Add Details 2

Help your fifth graders embellish their written work with these exercises that give them practice using adjectives to add detail to their sentences.

Hyperboles + Superlatives

What could be more fun than using hyperbole? Adding superlatives! Your students will have fun identifying both of these figures of speech in this worksheet.

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