Adjectives

What do you notice?

Mentor Sentence:

Warm tears rolled down her face.

​Warm is an adjective. It describes her tears.

How are they alike and different?

Mentor Sentence:

Imitated Sentence:

Warm tears rolled down her face.

I tell hilarious jokes.

​Warm describes what?










Hilarious describes what?

Editing Conversation

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Mentor Sentence:

Warm tears rolled down her face.

Warm rolled down her face.

​What is missing in the sentence?

Multiple Choice

What is the adjective?

The shiny spaceship landed in my yard.

• shiny

• spaceship

• landed

• yard

Multiple Choice

What is the adjective?

It waved its tiny hand in the air.

• waved

• its

• tiny

• hand

Multiple Choice

What is the adjective?

Earth is such a beautiful planet.

• earth

• is

• beautiful

• planet

Multiple Choice

What is the adjective?

A brown rabbit hopped into the yard and scared the alien.

• brown

• rabbit

• hopped

• scared

Multiple Choice

What is the adjective?

The frightened alien ran back into its spaceship and blasted off.

• alien

• frightened

• spaceship

• blasted

Multiple Choice

What's the adjective?

It was a white spaceship.

• was

• a

• white

• spaceship

Multiple Choice

What is the adjective?

His green hand waved hello.

• his

• hand

• waved

• green

Multiple Choice

What is the adjective?

An alien with big eyes walked out of the ship.

• alien

• big

• eyes

• ship