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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Identifying Adjectives

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Support your bright young grammarians with identifying adjectives using these simple, yet effective skills practice worksheets. Presenting with a series of 18 sentences children are asked to first circle the adjective and then write down...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Express Yourself

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify details that make reading and writing more interesting. They classify events, people, places, and things and attach specific characteristics to each one. Everyone generates describing words on a worksheet that's...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Create Your Island Paradise

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create a descriptive essay and map describing their island paradise. They try to evoke the reader's senses: seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting. They revise their paragraphs using their partner's feedback.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Descriptive Language

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the technique of descriptive writing. As a class, they observe a poster and describe it using adjectives. They discuss how descriptive words can be used literally and figuratively in the world of advertising. After...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Village Descriptions

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars respond to teacher questioning about villages and how their senses help describe things.  In this five senses instructional activity, students work in groups to make a written picture of another student in the class. ...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Descriptive Writing: Color Description Worksheet

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts activity, learners generate words that describe each of the 5 colors listed. Students write adjectives to tell what the color looks, feels, tastes, smells and sounds like.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Summer Body Activity: A Nose Workout

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners have sensory experiences with the sweet smell of discovery. In this early childhood science activity, students use their sense of smell as they create and compare their very own fragrance essences with a variety of provided...
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PPT
Pearson

Non-Action Verbs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
A verb is something you do — but can you always see the action? Use a slideshow presentation to clarify the differences between verbs that describe actions, and verbs that describe senses, preferences, and emotions.
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Lesson Plan
Perkins School for the Blind

I'm Thinking Of...

For Teachers K - 6th
Learning how to describe an object or a person is a great way to develop verbal and written expression. Learners with special needs improve their verbal expressive skills and concept development skills while playing a guessing game. The...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Eyes, Nose, and Taste Write It

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders generate a list of adjectives about a Reese's Cup using their sense of sight, touch, and taste. Then they write a descriptive paragraph about the Reese's Cup.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Color Descriptions

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students create a book about colors. In this exploring colors lesson, students read the book Hailstones and Halibut Bones. Students select a color and describe how the color looks, feels, tastes, and smells like. Students write down...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Grammar Test

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this adjectives learning exercise, students choose the correct adjectives that compare, describe, tell how many, and fill in adjectives to sentences. Students complete 15 problems total.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lollipop Adjectives

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to a story read to them by their teacher. They write as many descriptive sentences as they can using two or more adjectives describing a lollipop. They try to state how it feels, looks, smells and tastes. They share...
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Animal Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
How would you describe someone who was acting like a dog or a chicken? Teach your class the adjectives that pair with 20 different animals. They'll be able to describe anything canine or crocodilian, and everything in between.
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

The Senses

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore activities involving the five senses. They describe objects by touch and participate in craft corners using sand, rice, and blocks. They taste various foods and use their sight to find missing objects. They practice...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Applied Science - Science and Math Pre Lab

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore human senses. In this applied Science instructional activity, students utilize their senses to distinguish various objects. Students explain their descriptions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

All About Me: My Senses

For Teachers K
Students explore the world around them and identify their five senses and the parts of their bodies that are associated with each sense.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Five Senses Kids Activities and Crafts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners make binoculars to reinforce fine motor skills. In this fine motor skills lesson plan, students use colorful materials such as toilet paper rolls, craft paper, crayons, glue, scissors and yarn to make binoculars. By doing this...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Adjective Riddles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create a riddle using adjectives to describe an unknown edible substance to their classmates.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Math, Music and Architecture: Kindergarten Geometry and Aesthetics in Music and Architecture

For Teachers K - 8th
Students identify and name different geometrical shapes. In this math instructional activity, students distinguish odd from even numbers. They describe the properties of 2 and 3 dimensional objects.
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Activity
Poetry4kids

How to Write an Apology Poem

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Put a silly spin on making amends with an apology poem. Budding poets think of a time they were made to apologize although they didn't mean it. They then turn their experience into a poem that offers details and ends with an explanation...
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Assessment
California Education Partners

My Five Senses by Aliki

For Students 1st Standards
An assessment designed to examine scholars' reading comprehension skills takes place over three days. Starting with a read-aloud of My Five Senses by Aliki, learners then take notes and discuss their most memorable moments with a peer....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Riddle Poem

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice writing skills by writing riddle poems using adjectives to describe vegetables.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Color Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students describe colors. In this descriptive writing lesson, students brainstorm color descriptions using all of the senses except sight. Students write poems including similes, sensory images, and interesting word choice. Examples are...