Adjectives Second Grade

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AdjectivesSecond Grade

• Ashley Pauquette

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Lesson objectives

• The students will learn the definition of
  adjectives and how to identify them. Further,
  they will learn how to recognize adjectives in a
  sentence. Finally, the students will learn how to
  take a picture with a digital camera, upload it
  onto the computer and print it out so that they
  can then describe the picture they took.

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Introduction of learning activity

• I will ask the class as a whole to give me
  different ways to describe what the weather is
  like outside. Most of the words they give me will
  be adjectives, and when they are done I will tell
  them and begin to define what an adjective is. I
  will then explain that they will be going outside
  after the lesson to take a photo with a digital
  camera that they will be uploading, printing and
  describing using adjectives.

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Provide information

• The information about adjectives will be provided
  in a presentation. First, students will be given
  the definition of an adjective and a few examples
  of why adjectives are used and why they are
  helpful in everyday life.

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Provide information cont.

• Students will be told that that adjectives can
  and should tell how something looks, tastes,
  feels or sounds and that they should answer
  questions such as How many? How big? What kind?
  Students will then be provided with an extensive
  list of adjectives that fall into the specific
  categories above.

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Provide practice

• Included in the presentation will be a series of
  sentences in which the students as a class will
  have to pick out the adjective(s) in each one.
  After the class as a whole has finished
  identifying the adjectives in the sentences that
  have been provided, we will go to the computer
  lab where they will play a game on what we have
  just done
• http//www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/in
  teractives/literacy/wordclasses/adjectives.asp

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Provide practice cont.

• By doing this, I will be able to walk around and
  make sure each student is able to understand and
  successfully find the adjectives in each sentence
  on their own. At this time, we will take class
  outside with digital cameras, and each student
  will take a photo of something they choose.

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Provide practice cont.

• When we return to the computer lab, each student
  will upload and print their photo. We will bring
  the photo back to the classroom and each student
  will create a sentence that uses adjectives to
  describe it.

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Knowledge of results

• By having the students individually play the
  online game, I will be able to walk around and
  make sure each student is able to understand and
  successfully find the adjectives in each sentence
  on their own. Later on, when the students create
  sentences in groups and alone, I will be able to
  make sure that they can write sentences with
  adjectives as well as identify adjectives in
  sentences that they have not written.

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Review activity

• The activity and lesson will be reviewed by first
  having a student tell me what an adjective is. As
  a class we will then review some adjectives that
  we have become familiar with and create a couple
  sentences.

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Methods of assessment

• Students will be assessed by getting a grade for
  the picture that they took and the sentence they
  created to describe it. Additionally, the
  students will take a small quiz in which they
  identify adjectives in sentences.