Amazing Adjectives

Explicit instruction/Teacher modeling

• 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 practise/Interactive modeling

• 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

• 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.

• Enrichment:Challenge students to write sentences using additional adjectives. Have students identify adjectives used in classroom texts or independent reading books.
• Support:Have students select one adjective and noun to work with at a time.

• Circulate as students work.
• Collect the students’ work to assess for mastery.

• Draw students back together. Review the purpose of adjectives.
• Have students share some of the sentences and illustrations.