Describing Words in Writing

Lesson Plan - Get It!

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If writers are excellent, you can feel, see, and almost smell whatever they describe.

• Could you picture the gardens as you were listening to each description?

Describing words, called adjectives, makes a story much more exciting to read!

List all the adjectives you hear as you watch this video describing words.

• Are you ready to practice using adjectives in your sentences?

Read each sentence below. Think about what adjectives you could add to make the sentences more descriptive and help the reader create more of a picture in their head.

1. The teacher was scary.
2. The lion ate the lizard.
3. My ice cream melted on the floor.

Check out these possible sentences.

• Which did you like the best?

Creating sentences with adjectives is fun!

Listen to a read-aloud video of the book Hairy, Scary, Ordinary by Brian P. Cleary.

• Do you hear any new words that you don't know their meaning?

Keep going in the Got It? section!