Describing Words ? Learning About Adjectives
About the Describing Words ? Learning About Adjectives Lesson
Summary
Activity A requires them to identify adjectives in a text and Activity B gives them the opportunity to use adjectives in sentences and to respond to a description.
Objectives
• The children will be able to recognize adjectives within a text.
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The children will be able to write a short description of an image using adjectives.
Suggested Grades
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
Excerpt
When we write or speak we use sentences, like this one. A sentence is made up of words. Each word belongs to a special part of speech. Some of the parts of speech which we already know are nouns and verbs. The part of speech doesn?t tell us what the word is, but it tells us how the word is used. So the same word can be a noun in one sentence and a verb in another.
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