Ordering Adjectives

Ordering Adjectives

By Chieko DeBoise

​Learning Objectives
Students will:

• Review adjectives.

• Use adjectives correctly in speaking and writing.

• Identify and use ordering adjectives.

• Use ordering adjectives correctly in speaking and writing.

Open Ended

Let's Review:

What are adjectives? Give 5 examples of adjectives.

What is an adjective?

Adjectives are words that are used to describe people, places, and things (nouns).

What are adjectives?

Multiple Choice

Which word describes the word in blue?

Four turtles climbed on the log.

• four

• climbed

• on

• log

Multiple Choice

Which word describes the word in blue?

We sat beneath a shady umbrella.

• we

• sat

• beneath

• shady

Multiple Choice

Which word describes the word in blue?

Huge trees grow along the street.

• grow

• along

• huge

• street

Multiple Choice

Which word describes the word in blue?

The jacket I bought has deep pockets.

• jacket

• deep

• I

• bought

On Your Own!

Ordering Adjectives

​Now let's learn how to identify and use ordering adjectives.

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• Adjectives often appear before the nouns they describe.

• Sometimes a writer uses more than one adjective to describe a noun.

• When this is done, the adjectives should be in a certain order.

• That order is generally

  • number

  • opinion

  • size

  • shape

  • age

  • color

  • material

  • purpose.

Multiple Choice

Which is ordered correctly?

• five little kids

• little five kids

Multiple Choice

Which is ordered correctly?

• full three boxes

• three full boxes

Multiple Choice

Which is ordered correctly?

• large American cars

• American large cars

Multiple Choice

Which is ordered correctly?

• one big round ball

• round one big ball

Open Ended

Write three adjectives to describe this cat.

Multiple Choice

Which adjectives are written in the correct order?

• Large yellow the bus

• The yellow large bus

• The large yellow bus

• Yellow the large bus

Multiple Choice

Which sentence has the adjectives in the correct order?

• Nyla lives next to the wooden large blue house.

• The sweet orange cat that lives beside Marisol is over there.

• Antwane has an orange gigantic basketball.

Open Ended

Identify the right order of of the adjectives.

Open Ended

Identify the right order of of the adjectives.

​On Your Own!

​Independent Assignment