Aim

• To improve our writing by adding adjectives.

Success
Success Criteria
Criteria
• IStatement
know what1 Lorem
an adjective
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• IStatement
can choose
2 powerful adjectives to make my writing more interesting.
• Sub statement
 What is an Adjective?
An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

Thehuge
huge lion growled loudly.

The word ‘huge’ describes the lion so it is an adjective.

Can you spot the adjectives in these sentences?

She hadblack blueeyes.

black hair and blue

He stared at the tiny mouse on the floor.

Thesparkling
sparkling star was high in the sky.
 Using Adjectives
We can make our writing more interesting by adding
adjectives to describe the nouns.

Choose an adjective to describe the dog in the sentence below.

TheThe
The hugedog
fierce
pretty was
dog
dog
dog running
was
was
was towards
running
running
running me.
towards
towards
towards me.
me.
me.

huge fierce pretty

Which adjective would you choose?

Which would make the most sense?

 Using Adjectives
Which adjective best describes the witch?

The
The
The
The witch
lovely
old
evil cackled
witch
witch and
cackled
cackled stirred
and
and her
stirred
stirred cauldron.
her
her cauldron.
cauldron.

old evil lovely

Which adjective would you choose?

Which would make the most sense?

 Using Adjectives
Which adjective best describes the bird?

TheThe
The Thenice bird
bird
beautiful
powerful swooped
swooped
bird
bird down
down
swooped
swooped down
downtoto
catch
to catch
to its its
catch
catch prey.
prey.
its
its prey.
prey.

nice powerful beautiful

Which adjective would you choose?

Which would make the most sense?

 Using Adjectives
Which adjective best describes the boy?

I saw
IIIsaw
saw
saw aaan aold
boyboy
sparkly
small across
boy
boy thethe
across
across
across street.
the
the street.
street.
street.

sparkly small old

Which adjective would you choose?

Which would make the most sense?

 Using Adjectives
Which adjective best describes the house?

A house
AAApretty
big
shiny stood
house
housestoodinin
stood the distance.
inthe
thedistance.
distance.

shiny big pretty

Which adjective would you choose?

Which would make the most sense?

Can you think of a suitable adjective to go in each
gap in these sentences?

1. The dragon flew through the sky.

2. I stared at the elephant.

3. A crown was placed on the princess’ head.

4. The night was and .

5. The tree towered above me.