This week, first grade students have begun learning about adjectives. Today, as an introduction, students participated in the shared read aloud, If You Were an Adjective and listened to the School House Rock song, Unpack Your Adjectives. We discovered adjectives are words that describe nouns. They tell us how something looks, how something sounds, how something feels, and how something behaves. Adjectives serve to make our writing more interesting and help the reader visualize by creating a more clear picture in his or her mind. We have discovered adjectives can be both numbers and colors and can occur in different parts of sentences.
Students have and will continue to participate in activities and centers focused on identifying and generating adjectives. Today, we drafted acrostic poems about ourselves using adjectives. In the coming days, students will practice identifying adjectives in a variety of shared fiction and nonfiction read alouds. They will identify adjectives in independent reading activities, play a variety of adjective related games (memory, matching, opposites, sorting, etc.), and focus on adjectives while examining word choice in writing.
