Lesson Plan For Parts Of Speech: Adjectives Level 1

OBJECTIVE:
Adjectives (words that describe) are the key to descriptive writing. They can make the words they modify pop off the page. Creating descriptive sentences on piclits.com in DRAG-N-DROP mode is a great way to practice learning adjectives in the word bank and choosing the right adjective to make your descriptive sentence memorable.

Adjectives often come before the word they modify.
Example: the vibrant (adjective) lemon.

But adjectives can also follow verbs, but they modify the subject.
Example: The colors in the painting are vibrant (adjective).
Vibrant modifies the subject colors.

MODEL SENTENCE:
A wild goose never laid a tame egg.
A wild (adjective) goose never laid a tame (adjective) egg.

Emotions are powerful.
Emotions are powerful. (adjective: powerful modifies emotions)

INCORRECT AND CORRECT:
Incorrect: Success (adjective) is public; failure (adjective) is private.
Correct: Success is public (adjective); failure is private (adjective).

MODEL PIC-LIT:

GUIDED PRACTICE WRITING PROMPT:

  1. Go to piclits.com
  2. Sign in with your e-mail and password
  3. Select a picture from the gallery of pictures
  4. In DRAG-N-DROP mode, write a sentence with three adjectives.