The Describers: Reviewing Adjectives and Adverbs
About the The Describers: Reviewing Adjectives and Adverbs Lesson
Summary
This is a review lesson about adjectives and adverbs and how to use them.
Objectives
• to review the concept of adjectives and provide definitions and examples;
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to review the concept of adverbs and provide definitions and examples;
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to assess students? understanding of the function of adjectives and adverbs in sentences.
Suggested Grades
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade
Excerpt
Adjectives and adverbs can be called the describing parts of speech. They modify or describe other words in a sentence.
Adjectives are words that describe nouns and pronouns. That?s it. They cannot modify any other part of speech. Adjectives tell what kind, how many, or which one.
? The blue bucket fell into the sandbox.
? Six blue buckets were in the sandbox.
? That bucket is in the sandbox.
Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. They tell us how, when, or where.
? The horse trotted slowly down the path.
? The horse trotted at an extremely slow pace. (This is an adverb phrase)
? The horse trotted very slowly down the path.
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