Materials

• Adjectives Lesson - Use the printable lesson for your lesson plan, or use student version as lesson supplement.

• Adjectives Worksheets - Printable teaching adjectives worksheets.

Procedure

Teachers -- introduce adjectives to the students by having them think of three words that describe a puppy and an elephant. Write them on the board. Most of these will be adjectives. (Ex. soft, cute, large, grey.)

Definition : Adjective

An adjective is a word that describes a noun (person, place, or thing).

Adjectives can tell how something looks, tastes, feels or sounds. Adjectives answer questions like: How many? How big? What kind? Which?

Articles (or determiners)

There are some special adjectives that are used frequently in speech and writing:

the
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an

Teachers -- Have students find the adjectives in the following sentences.

Example 1:
"On a warm, sunny day, Alex swam in the cold, blue lake.
(warm and sunny describes day; the, cold, blue describes lake.)

Example 2:
"The smiling girl ran to the biggest dog.
(smiling tells what kind of girl; the biggest describes dog.)

Example 3:
"Mr. Smith bought four red apples, three oranges, and two ripe bananas."
(four, red tells what kind of apple; three tells how many oranges, and two, ripe tells what kind of bananas.)

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