Fun With Adjectives
About the Fun With Adjectives Lesson
Summary
A lesson on how to use adjectives to paint a vivid word picture. Using adjectives that make sense to fill in the blanks of a creative story. A short lesson in creative writing.
Objectives
• to evaluate students? understanding of the concept of adjectives;
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to teach students how to fill in the blanks of a story, using their own adjectives;
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to encourage creativity in searching for unusual or different adjectives.
Suggested Grades
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
4th Grade
Excerpt
What is an adjective?
Adjectives are describing words. Adjectives are words that tell us more about a noun. Let?s look at some sentences using the noun house.
? The little, white house was built last year.
? My grandma?s brick house is bigger than ours.
? Do you have a purple and pink playhouse?
Do you see how adjectives can change a sentence by giving us more details about the nouns?
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