Motivation/Introduction:
- Teacher will read Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective? by Brian P. Cleary.
- The teacher will explain that adjectives can be divided into four groups: color, shape, size, and kind.
- The class will discuss adjectives in the story.
- Students will describe illustrations in the story using adjectives.
Teaching/Learning Activities:
- Students will play an interactive sorting game.
- The teacher will tell the students they are about to play a game called, “Let’s Describe!”
- The teacher will tape on the floor the five colored index cards entitled: Adjectives (top) with the four categories under the title labeled: Color, Shape, Size, Kind
- The teacher will explain that the objective of this game is that the adjective cards be placed under the correct categories.
- The teacher will select two students to play “Let’s Describe”.
- Each student will receive 20 cards.
- Students will compete with each other by putting adjective cards down on the floor by categorizing them by color, shape, size, and kind.
- Students will have to read and sort the cards, quickly. The student with all the adjective cards down first, wins!
- The teacher will gather the cards and select other students to play with.
Closure:
- On the interactive whiteboard, the teacher will display the following five sentences containing adjectives.
- The pink pig is muddy.
- John has a brown dog.
- My blue shirt is hanging up.
- The white snow fell down.
- My yellow bee flew by.
- After discussing each sentence, a student will come to the board to underline the adjective in the sentence.
- Think, Pair, Share: The teacher will tell students to turn to his/her partner and create a sentence with an adjective.
- Students will be asked to write their sentences on the interactive board.
- Students will ask other students to underline the adjective in the sentence.
- Once the children understand that adjectives can be divided into categories, students will create their own picture chart of adjectives.
- The teacher will pass out magazines, paper, scissors, glue, and pencils.
- Students will cut out five pictures and glue them to a sheet of paper.
- Students will create and write a sentence about the pictures using an adjective.
- Students will underline adjectives in the sentences.
- As a closing activity, students can play any of the following online games:
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