Adjectives Jill Rotunno EDU

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

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

Let’s take a look at each of these.

Which One angry bear hot campfire

What kind? big nose colorful butterfly

How Many? two kittens several balloons

Watch this video. School House Rock

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

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

Hang in there… You’re almost done.

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

State Standards - 4 th Grade GLCE’s W.PS – 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 – 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 – 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.

Resources - (school house, slide 1) "Free Gifs & Animations" - (bear, slide 5) (campfire, slide 5) (butterfly, slide 6) - (clown, slide 6) (cats, slide 7) "Free Gifs & Animations" – (balloons, slide 7) (eyes, slide 8) (monkey, slide 11)