Adjectives

Writing Minilesson

Topic: The importance of including adjectives in writing

Grade Level: 3rd or 4th grade

Objective: TSWBAT add adjectives to a sentence to make it more appealing and interesting.

MO Standards: Goal 2 #2, Communication Arts #1

Students with Special Needs: To serve students with special needs that may not be able to see or write, you could bring objects in to have them touch and feel to describe their detail.

Materials: Black and white picture of a person, colored picture of a person, group activityÐ'--worksheet of sentences with words written on index card, another worksheet of sentences

Procedure:

Introduce the Topic:

Ð'* I was grading everyone's journals for the week and have been noticing that everyone could use some help or ideas to make their writing a bit more interesting.

Ð'* One way to add appeal to your story is by adding adjectives.

Ð'* What is an adjective?

Ð'* Look at this picture of a person (show black and white picture), is it very interesting?

Ð'* How could we make this picture more appealing?

Ð'* Add color to the picture and relate this to how adding adjectives in our writing improves it.

Share Examples:

Ð'* Write sentences on the board, leaving spaces for adjective use in the second sentence:

"I ran down the road to the lake."