Joe Russell June 12,

2015
All About Adjectives English Language Arts
Second Grade

DURATION:
30 Minutes

LESSON PLAN TITLE AND SUMMARY/PRIOR KNOWLEDGE:

ALL ABOUT ADJECTIVES
After reading the story, If You Were An Adjective, the children will be
asked to write down as many adjectives as they can. Using picture
cards and the sheet provided, the children will describe their picture
card and fill in the sentence strip. Then, the children will read their
sentence to the class and have their peers guess what is on the picture
card. This will promote the children to see the power of description
through the use of adjectives (and how important they are in our
reading and writing). The students are expected to have prior
knowledge about adjectives, nouns, and sentence structure.

LINKS TO COMMON CORE:

L.2.6: Use words and phrases through conversation, reading and
being read to, and responding to texts and pictures, including using
adjectives and adverbs to describe.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE OF THE LESSON:

Students will be able to use adjectives to describe nouns
through the use of picture cards.
(The use and practice of adjectives is the main focus of this lesson.
Ultimately having the students applying their strong foundation of
adjectives through a fun and enjoyable thirty minutes in the classroom
is the true objective of this lesson.)

MATERIALS:
All About Adjectives Worksheet Pencil
26 Pictures If You Were an Adjective by Michael
Dahl

VOCABULARY:
Check All About Adjectives Worksheet

CONNECTIONS ACROSS THE CURRICULUM:

The combination of learning what an adjective is through a story and a
visual representation game was a great way to incorporate diverse
instruction. Also, the book includes knowledge on water and land
mammals.
INSTRUCTIONAL SEQUENCE:
1. The students will be asked what they know about
adjectives.
2. They will gather for the teacher to read the story, If You
Were an Adjective.
a. Discuss how adjectives help support the details
of the noun on each page.
b. Inform students to ask about any words they
do not know.
3. Have the students go to their desks, ask them to come up
with as many adjectives as they can think of and write them on
the back of the All About Adjectives worksheet.
a. Have some children read some of their
adjectives.
4. Flip the sheet and quickly scan through the list of words
and have the students ask about any word they are not sure
about.
5. Notify the children you are passing out a picture, this
picture cannot be seen by anyone in the class other than you and
that student.
6. Prompt the children to come up with three adjectives
describing the picture they have on their desk.
a. Finish the sentence strip provided, filling in the
three adjectives they came up with.
b. Go through the entire class, having each
student read their descriptive sentence out loud.
c. Choose children to guess the noun, the
adjective are describing.

ASSESSMENT:
Having the students discover which noun their peers were describing is
a unique yet effective way to assess the students. In addition, constant
informal observation assessment will be used as an assessment.

PLANNING FOR LEARNER VARIABILITY:

The teacher will be able to walk around during the lesson helping any
child that needs attention. Also, if student is not capable of writing
their sentence, they can simply verbalize their picture card.