Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: What Are Adverbs?
This short article briefly explains the purpose of adverbs, how to identify them, and provides an example.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Order of Adjectives Worksheets
Find more than a dozen printable worksheets to use for practicing the order in which adjectives should be placed when you have more than one adjective describing a noun.
Cengage Learning
Cengage Learning: Adjectives and Adverbs Comparative and Superlative Forms
This is an English style guide article focusing on comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs. It explains how to form these adjectives and adverbs, how to use them, and provides examples.
Quia
Quia: Ordering the Planets (Quiz)
In this adjective practice activity, students read a sentence and locate the correct adjective or predicate adjective in the sentence using a drop-down menu.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Enriching Writing With Adjectives and Synonyms
Contains plans for six lessons that teach third- and fourth-grade students about adjectives and uses webbing to come up with synonyms for a list of them. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Subject Verb Agreement Power Point
Learn about subject-verb agreement and practice identifying correct agreement in questions that could be found on standardized tests.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Action Packed Rain Forest Sentences
In this lesson, Jane Yolen's Welcome to the Greenhouse is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite verbs from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use interactive...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Action Packed Ocean Sentences
In this lesson, Andrew Clement's awesome picture book, Big Al is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite verbs from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Camping Sentences
In this lesson, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this lesson. When I Go Camping with Grandma, a book by Marion Dane Bauer, is used as the mentor text of this lesson. Learners will...
Other
Kim's Korner: Color Coded Parts of Speech Kinesthetic Lesson Plan
Students can brush up on their knowledge of the parts of speech when they do this lesson. This site contains a kinesthetic lesson plan that caters to children with all types of learning styles.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Adjectives: Regular Comparatives and Superlatives
A helpful site concerning the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives. Includes definitions and practice exercises.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Adjective Game for Kids
Students use this writing prompt generator to choose a writing topic and three adjectives to use in an original piece.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Grammar Blast: Adjectives and Adverbs
A quiz to assess student understanding of adjectives and adverbs is included on this site.
Other
English Grammar Online: Form and Comparison of Adverbs
Charts show how adverbs are formed from adjectives, and how to form the comparative and superlative forms for both regular and irregular adverbs. Exercises are available to practice your skills.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: What Are Adjectives?
This blog article explains what adjectives are, what they can do in sentences, and provides examples of each.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: What Do Adjectives Modify?
This blog article explains that adjectives modify nouns and provides examples. It also discusses predicate adjectives.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Abstract Nouns
This page explains that an abstract noun is not identifiable by any of the five senses and provides examples.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Adjective and Verb Placement
This page focuses on the relationships between adjectives and verbs including predicate adjectives, linking verbs, and participles --verbs used as adjectives such as the smiling baby.
ProProfs
Pro Profs: Degrees of Adjectives
Test your knowledge on degrees of adjectives with this self-assessment. Choose the correct adjective for each sentence. Included is a section to discuss your results.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Syntax Store
The colors listed in the boxes represent different parts of speech: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, etc. Figure out which colors represent which part of speech and then use the colors to create proper sentences.
Other
Elfnet: Superlative Adjectives
This is a quiz over superlative adjectives; given an adjective, students type in the correct superlative adjective form.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Blog: Adverbs: What Do Adverbs Modify?
This blog focuses on adverbs, including what they modify, how to find them in sentences, degrees of adverbs, and examples of each.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Special Nouns Practice
In this practice execise, students will identify nouns referring to qualities, ideas, and emotions.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Specific and Memorable Details
The Important Book, written by Margaret Wise Brown, provides a very specific writing pattern that even the youngest of writers can imitate. Requiring these types of patterns for writing tasks provides safety for all students, and when...