These adjective flash cards help kindergarten through 4th grade children describe 18 bright pictures with fold-over word cards and model sentences. A practice page and answer key are included.
Using this Adjectives Mini Pack, students learn how to use adjectives in their writing through ten fun worksheets and three activities.
This adding details to your story activity helps kindergarten to 3rd grade writers turn one sentence into a longer story with question cards and a planner. Answer key included, so practice is quick to check.
This drawing details activity lets kindergarten to 2nd grade students read describing sentences and add the missing details to each picture. Answer key included for quick checking.
This describing a topic worksheet lets kindergarten students circle the adjective that fits each picture, then name a topic and tell about it. An answer key is included for quick checking.
This adding story details worksheet has kindergarten students tell a partner about a surprise, draw it, check who, where, and feelings, and finish a sentence about their picture.
Children read a sentence and draw the missing detail in this drawing to add details activity for Kindergarten to 2nd Grade. Answer key included for quick checking.
Big, red, fuzzy describing words
Kindergartners learn that some words describe things. They tell us color, size, shape and how something feels: a big red ball, a soft fuzzy cat. They practice adding describing words to their drawings and sentences to make them more interesting. The big moment is when a child changes "I see a dog" to "I see a little brown dog" and grins at how much better it sounds.
Young kids learn describing words best by using their senses and their crayons.
Flash an adjective card and have kids act it out: tiny, huge, sleepy, bouncy. Then show a picture and ask for two describing words. Pictures give kids something concrete to describe.
Why it works: pairing a picture with each word gives kids two ways to remember it, a well-tested principle of how people learn (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withAdjective Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Have kids draw a simple picture, then add three details that match describing words, like stripes or a big smile. The drawing details activity shows how words and pictures work together.
Why it works: the U.S. Department of Education's guide for teaching elementary math recommends moving from hands-on objects to drawings to numbers.
Try it withDrawing Details ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Write a plain sentence on the board, like "The cat sat." Ask kids for describing words and rewrite it together. Then they try it in the adding details activity.
Why it works: handing over the work step by step, from teacher to student, is one of the most widely used teaching frameworks (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
Try it withAdding Details to Your Story ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Describing words are perfect for silly games.
ActivitiesKids feel an object in a bag and describe it with adjectives while classmates guess.
Open Drawing to Add Details Activity →
WorksheetsRead a short story and add one describing word to every sentence. The silliest one wins.
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WorksheetsKids pick a favorite animal and list words that tell how it looks, feels and sounds.
Open Describing a Topic Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Adjective Flash Cards, Adjectives Mini Pack and Adding Details to Your Story Activity.
An adjective is a describing word. It tells more about a person, place or thing, like big, blue, soft or happy.
Use real objects and pictures and ask kids how they look, feel, smell or sound. Acting out describing words and adding details to drawings also helps.
Start with colors, sizes and feelings: red, blue, big, little, happy, sad. These are words kids already know and can use right away.
Play "describe it" at mealtime: ask your child to use two words to describe their food. Crunchy, cold, sweet and yummy all count!
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