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Using Descriptive Language
Students explore the technique of descriptive writing. As a class, they observe a poster and describe it using adjectives. They discuss how descriptive words can be used literally and figuratively in the world of advertising. After...
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Simple Grammar Lessons
Young scholars participate in a variety of grammar lessons. Lessons can be given as online activities or a printed worksheets. Topics include verbs, nouns, adjectives, homophones, similes, adverbs, and alliteration. Once unit is...
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Adjectives
Second graders identify adjectives and brainstorm adjectives that may be used to complete sentences. Students draw pictures and describe them using adjectives. The teacher and students participate in an activity where they ask...
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Create a Poem
Students write three simple rhyming poems and read them aloud with rhythm. Students select two adjectives that are opposites and two rhyming verbs to create rhyming lines of the same length with an adjective-noun-verb pattern.
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Scavenger Hunt for Adjective Images
Students work in groups to create silent videos or still images that define or represent adjectives. They share their creations with the other groups in class to see if they can determine the adjective their project represented.
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Structured Diamante Poem
Students review parts of speech such as nouns, adjectives, verbs, and antonyms. Students will brainstorm a list of different parts of speech, study the format of a Diamante poem, and choose their own words to create their own Diamante poem.
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Nouns, Verbs, and Describing Words
Second graders photograph items in their school and write a sentence that describes the items. They use different colored fonts when word processing the sentence to highlight nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
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Attractive Adjectives
Third graders, in a foreign language class, identify and use adjectives in sentences.
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Seeing Eye "Buddies"
Third graders observe a variety of sights within their schoolyard habitat and sitting quietly back-to-back with a partner describe what they see. The partner sketches the observations, 3rd graders compare drawings with the object described.
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How to Score in the Word Series
Learners examine an object in the classroom and write a description of it employing exciting language. They brainstorm and outline ideas for an original article about an event they participated in or attended.
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Adjectives in Poetry
Students read selected poems from the book Beast Feast, by Douglas Florian. They identify at least two to three keyword facts about each beast highlighted in the poems.
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Awesome Adjectives Postcards!
Young scholars create a postcard by illustrating a place they would like to visit and using ten adjectives in a short message describing the pictures.
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Multi-Sensory Grammar - Adjectives
Third graders demonstrate knowledge of adjectives, and use this knowledge to color-code parts of speech of a sentence.
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Getway to More Descriptive Writing
Students use more precise descriptive words in their writing.
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Cinquain
Students use poetry Cinquain to help review nouns, adjectives, verbs, and synonyms. They follow up by composing their own Cinquain.
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Grammar Fun
Students learn about nouns, verbs, and adjectives in the target language. Students orally demonstrate knowledge of the patterns and rules governing using these words in oral language.
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Adjectives in Dialogue
Ninth graders use adjectives to depict setting and reveal character and incorporate adjectives into dialogue appropriate for setting.
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Delicious Descriptive Adjectives
Students write out recipes with different adjectives then share them with the class.
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Hailstones & Halibut Bones: Using Color to Teach Adjectives
Students write a color poem with a color, a noun, and their two adjectives in each line. They can start each line with the color or the noun, as long as the adjectives are put where they make sense.
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Adjective Pairs - 'ing' and 'ed' Adjectives
In this adjective pairs worksheet, students analyze the verb form of the given words and the adjective 'ing' and 'ed' endings to improve their grammar skills.
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A Boring/Fascinating Worksheet About Adjectives
In this adjectives instructional activity, students read the sentences and choose the best adjectives out of the two to complete the 15 exercises.
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Adjectives - Comparative and Superlative Forms
In this adjective forms worksheet, students read the adjective in the first column and write their comparative and superlative forms.
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Adjective Practice
In this adjective worksheet, students read a set of 9 sentences, writing the adjective in each sentence on a line beside it. Page has links to answers and additional resources.
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Adverb or Adjective
In this adverbs and adjectives worksheet, students read through the twenty-five sentences and circle the correct adverb or adjective form to complete the sentence.