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Adjectives
First Grade Reading, Writing 70 minutes Standards: L.1.1.F

by Dee Mulhern September 15, 2015

In this lesson, students use descriptive adjectives to write interesting sentences and create
pictures.

Learning Objectives
Students will be able to use adjectives to describe a noun.

Materials and Preparation Key Terms: Attachments
Index cards with nouns and adjectives adjectives
Paper
PDF
Write Your Own worksheet

Write Your
Own

Lesson
Introduction (10 minutes)
Gather students together and show them a picture of an interesting object or scene.
Encourage students to describe the picture with different words.
Tell students that today they will learn about words we can use to describe things.

Explicit Instruction/Teacher Modeling (10 minutes)

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.

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Guided Practice/Interactive Modeling (15 minutes)
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 (15 minutes)

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.

Extend
Differentiation
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.

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Review
Assessment (15 minutes)
Circulate as students work.
Collect the students’ work to assess for mastery.

Review and Closing (5 minutes)

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

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