5th Grade Adjectives 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

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Saturday Mystery: Choosing Adjectives and Adverbs

Game

Saturday Mystery: Choosing Adjectives and Adverbs

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

5th grade

Reading & writing

Game

Adding Adjectives

Worksheet

Adding Adjectives

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

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Emoji Emotions

Worksheet

Emoji Emotions

Students take emojis from text to paper, using them as prompts for identifying and reflecting upon their own feelings.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Using Adjectives and Verbs to Make Writing Come to Life

Lesson plan

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.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Parts of Speech that Describe

Lesson plan

Parts of Speech that Describe

Support your EL students in understanding and identifying parts of speech such as adverbs and adjectives in a text. This lesson plan can also support the lesson Varsity Parts of Speech Review.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

What Sounds Better? Verbs and Adjectives

Worksheet

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.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Imagery Using Verbs and Adjectives

Worksheet

Imagery Using Verbs and Adjectives

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

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Parts of Speech

Guided Lesson

Parts of Speech

Words work together in a sentence, each one performing a different task. By fifth grade, students have become more adept readers and writers and they are familiar with the basic parts of speech. The activities in this unit revisit some of the basics and also add depth to their existing understanding. Students will engage in such topics as superlative adjectives, correlative conjunctions and prepositional phrases, to name a few.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Guided Lesson

Varsity Parts of Speech Review

Lesson plan

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.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Precise Punctuation

Workbook

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.

5th grade

Social studies

Workbook

Ad-Lib Stories: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives and Adverbs

Worksheet

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.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Writers' Building Blocks

Workbook

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.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Workbook

Who Will Score the Most? Comparative and Superlative Adjective Game

Worksheet

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.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Fact & Opinion Adjectives

Worksheet

Fact & Opinion Adjectives

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

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Fact & Opinion Statements with Adjectives

Lesson plan

Fact & Opinion Statements with Adjectives

In this lesson, your ELs will learn how to differentiate statements of fact and opinion in a nonfiction text using adjectives as a foundation for their understanding. This is a support lesson for Research: Where to Find the Answers.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Parts of Speech: Words that Describe

Worksheet

Parts of Speech: Words that Describe

In this exercise, students will identify adjectives and adverbs as well as the nouns and verbs they describe.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

More Hyperbole in Poetry

Worksheet

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!

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Show What You Know About Comparative & Superlative Adjectives

Worksheet

Show What You Know About Comparative & Superlative Adjectives

Assess your students’ knowledge of comparative and superlative adjectives.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Adjectives to Add Details 2

Exercise

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.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Exercise

Descriptive Words

Worksheet

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.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Glossary: Parts of Speech that Describe

Worksheet

Glossary: Parts of Speech that Describe

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Parts of Speech that Describe.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Comparative and Superlative Adjectives 3

Exercise

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.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Exercise

Hyperboles + Superlatives

Worksheet

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.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet