2. Adjectives Jill Rotunno EDU 643 10-9-09

3. What’s an adjective? An adjective tells about a noun.

4. An adjective tells… Which one? What kind? How many?

5. Let’s take a look at each of these.

6. Which One angry bear hot campfire

7. What kind? big nose colorful butterfly

8. How Many? two kittens several balloons

9. Watch this video. School House Rock

10. Still unsure… Let’s play a game. (Just click below.) Adjectives Game

11. Time to write your own adjectives. After you click on the site below, click on a picture. Scroll down to Add Your Comment. Write two sentences describing the photo. Each sentence must contain at least two adjectives. Click on Post Comment, then exit out. To begin, click here: flickrflickr

12. Hang in there… You’re almost done.

13. Take the quiz and you are done! Just click on the link below. Adjectives Quiz

14. State Standards - 4 th Grade GLCE’s W.PS.04.01 – exhibit personal style and voice to enhance the written message (e.g., in narrative text: strong verbs, figurative language, sensory images; in informational text: precision, established importance, transitions). W.GR.04.01 – in the context of writing, correctly use simple and compound sentences; direct and indirect objects; prepositional phrases; adjectives; common and proper nouns as subjects and objects; pronouns as antecedents, regular and irregular verbs, hyphens between syllables, apostrophes in contractions; and commas in salutations to set of words; phrases and dialogue; quotation marks or italics to identify titles or names. L.RP.04.03 – respond to multiple text types listened to or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating, and/or writing in order to clarify meaning, make connections, take a position, and/or show deep understanding.

15. Resources http://www.clker.com/clipart-1995.html - (school house, slide 1) http://www.clker.com/clipart-1995.html http://www.fg-a.com "Free Gifs & Animations" - (bear, slide 5) http://www.fg-a.com http://www.fullfreestuff.com/free-graphics/animation/fire.shtml - (campfire, slide 5) http://www.fullfreestuff.com/free-graphics/animation/fire.shtml http://bestanimations.com/Animals/Insects/Butterflys/Butterflys.html - http://bestanimations.com/Animals/Insects/Butterflys/Butterflys.html (butterfly, slide 6) http://www.gifs.net/Animation11/Hobbies_and_Entertainment/Circus/Big_nose.gif - (clown, slide 6) http://www.gifs.net/Animation11/Hobbies_and_Entertainment/Circus/Big_nose.gif http://www.gifanimations.com/animation/MenuSelection/1/43 - (cats, slide 7) http://www.gifanimations.com/animation/MenuSelection/1/43 http://www.fg-a.com "Free Gifs & Animations" – (balloons, slide 7) http://www.fg-a.com http://www.animationlibrary.com/sc/64/Eyes/?page=3 (eyes, slide 8) http://www.animationlibrary.com/sc/64/Eyes/?page=3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYzGLzFuwxI http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/interestsentences/adjectives/game.shtml http://flickr.com http://www.freefever.com/animatedgifs/monkeys.html - (monkey, slide 11) http://www.freefever.com/animatedgifs/monkeys.html http://docs.google.com/#all http://michigan.gov/documents/4th_ELA-Intro_Ltrweb_135112_7.pdf