Describing Nouns Adjective Activity
This describing nouns adjective activity has 1st and 2nd Grade partners describe picture cards with adjectives and play a guessing game. Answer key included.
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Description
Adjectives are describing words that tell how a noun looks, feels, sounds or tastes. This describing nouns adjective activity helps 1st and 2nd Grade students use adjectives out loud as they talk about people, places and things, building both vocabulary and speaking and listening skills.
Partners take turns picking one of 12 Picture Cards, such as a kitten, a fire truck or a sandcastle, and giving three describing words while the other child guesses the picture. A Describing Words page sorts helpful adjectives into color, size, shape, feel, sound and taste, and a Describe It! page lets children write their card number and three adjectives. A 1st Grade practice worksheet asks children to circle the adjective in each sentence.
What’s Included
- A colorful cover page
- A How to Use page with materials, prep, steps and extension ideas
- 12 picture cards on two cut sheets
- A Describing Words page with six groups of adjectives
- A Describe It! recording page
- A 1st Grade practice worksheet: circle the adjective
- A picture card list with sample adjectives and a practice answer key
Why Kids Love It
- The guessing game makes describing feel like a puzzle.
- The pictures are fun, familiar things kids love to talk about.
- The word page gives every child words to try.
Ideas for Teachers and Parents
Use this describing nouns adjective activity in a speaking and listening center, during morning meeting, or as a quick partner game at home. Challenge children to use one word from three different groups on the Describing Words page. This 1st grade adjectives activity also makes a fun warm-up before a descriptive writing lesson. Afterward, invite children to pick a favorite card and write one sentence about it using two of their describing words, then read the sentence aloud to a partner.
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Ema M. –
Love the worksheet. very simple, kids have more to talk about