A world without adjectives would be a sad place indeed! Make sure adjectives stay around by teaching your class about what they are and how using them can make a boring story truly interesting. Learners put this idea into practice by editing a paragraph to include adjectives.

Concepts

adjectives, parts of speech, nouns, sensory language, descriptive writing

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Invite pupils to work with partners as they add in appropriate (and maybe sometimes outlandish) adjectives to the story
• Have kids read their versions out loud to the class to compare

Classroom Considerations

• While this activity does include an answer key, it is actually not useful, since the idea is that learners are to come up with their own original adjectives
• The lines that students are meant to write on are rather narrow, so you may wish to provide a separate sheet of writing paper

Pros

• The activity requires pupils to think creatively and allows for some fun
• Requires class members to identify and use several different parts of speech

Cons

• None

Common Core

L.3.1.a L.4.1.a L.5.1.a L.6.1.a