Adjectives: Hairy Apes and Green Cupcakes
About the Adjectives: Hairy Apes and Green Cupcakes Lesson
Summary
This lesson is designed to teach children how to use their own adjectives to make more interesting sentences.
Objectives
• to reinforce the use of adjectives;
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to encourage creativity in the selection of adjectives;
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to test the children?s understanding of the concept of adjectives.
Suggested Grades
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
4th Grade
Excerpt
Adjectives are describing words. By using adjectives, we can have a hairy ape, a green cupcake, or a pink-striped grape!
Adjectives are words that tell us more about a noun. Look at these sentences and see how the adjectives paint a word picture.
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