All About Adjectives

Lesson Plan - Get It!

Audio:

Describing a color was harder than it sounded!

Adjectives are words used to describe nouns.

You can use adjectives to describe how something looks, feels, sounds, smells, acts, and tastes.

Adjectives can also be used to describe how many there are of something, what color something is, the size of something, and the shape of something.

Adjectives make your sentences more creative and interesting.

• Are you ready to learn how?

Fantastic! You can use the chart below anytime to help you think of adjectives.

You can use adjectives to describe how something looks.

Look at the two pictures below. Read the sentence below each one. The adjective is in bold.

Pretty and scary are words that can be used to describe the way something looks. They are adjectives!

There are many other ways to use adjectives in sentences. Read the sentences below that describe how something feels, sounds, tastes, and smells.

• Did you read all of the sentences?

Great work! All the sentences you read contained adjectives.

Soft describes how something feels. Loud describes how something sounds. Stinky describes how something smells. Sweet describes how something tastes.

There are more ways you can use adjectives! Check out the examples below.

The examples you read all contain adjectives.

The word two is used to describe how many dogs are at the park. The adjective round is used to tell the shape of the ball.

• What does the adjective big tell you about the elephants?

That’s right! Big is an adjective to describe the elephant's size.

• What do the adjectives blue and orange tell you about the girl’s hands?

These adjectives describe the colors on the girl's hands.

You saw many examples of adjectives being used in sentences. You will learn an adjective song in the Got It? section!