Amazing Adjectives

First Grade Reading, Writing

by Dee Mulhern October 1, 2015

In this lesson, students use descriptive adjectives to write interesting sentences and create pictures.

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to use adjectives to describe a noun.

Materials and preparation Key terms

Index cards with nouns and adjectives adjectives

Paper
Write Your Own worksheet

Attachments

Write Your Own (PDF)

Introduction (10 minutes)

Gather students together and show them a picture of an interesting object or scene.
Encourage students to describe the picture with different words.
Tell students that today they will learn about words we can use to describe things.

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling (10 minutes)

Tell students that when we describe nouns we use words called adjectives.
Hold another picture up. Model using your senses to describe the picture. List the senses on the board
and the corresponding adjective.
Tell students that good writers use a wide variety of adjectives.
Give two more examples.

Guided Practice (15 minutes)

Have students work in pairs to brainstorm a list of adjectives.

Have students list the adjectives on cards.
Combine the cards with the cards you previously made.
Have students pick up two or three adjective card and combine them with a noun.
Have students work together to put the adjectives and nouns into a sentence with an illustration.

Independent working time (15 minutes)

Have students select at least two adjectives and a noun to write a sentence about and illustrate.
Have students complete the Write Your Own worksheet.

Differentiation

Enrichment: Challenge students to write sentences using additional adjectives. Have students identify
adjectives used in classroom texts or independent reading books.

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 Support: Have students select one adjective and noun to work with at a time.

Assessment (15 minutes)

Circulate as students work.

Collect the students’ work to assess for mastery.

Review and closing (5 minutes)

Draw students back together. Review the purpose of adjectives.

Have students share some of the sentences and illustrations.

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Grade Practice
Writing
Stories Write Your Own Using
Adjectives
Complete each sentence by writing your own adjective.

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INTERSTATE

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This camera is very __________________________.

I love strawberries very much because they are _________________________.

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It is very ___________________ in this room. We need more light!

My mom bought me __________________ dresses.

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