Writing Lesson Plan

Name: Brittany Burns Date: 11/5/08

Grade Level: 3^nd

Objective(s): The objective of this lesson plan is to get students thinking about how adjectives make writing more interesting.

Teaching/Learning Process

I: I will begin the class by asking students if they know what Adjectives are. I will then explain adjectives and give some examples of adjectives on the board. I will explain to students that I have a story about a dog named Mikey and that I feel that it needs to be “spiced up” to make it more interesting. I will ask students, “ Do you think that using adjectives in my story might make it more interesting?” I will explain that I am having a hard time thinking of adjectives and that I have just enough nouns in my sentence for every student to modify.

II: My lesson plan will be focused on the importance of using adjectives in writing.

III: I will finish the mini-lesson by reading the story that the students modified about a dog named Mikey.

IV: I will accommodate students who do not understand what adjectives are by giving them extra help. I could ask them questions like, “what color was the dog?”, “What kind of dog?”, “How was the dog feeling?”, etc. (based on their sentence).

V: After the students help me write my story, I could ask them to write about an animal they own or one that they wished they owned. I would ask them to use as many adjectives to describe their animal. They would be asked to underline all of the adjectives in the story. They could then illustrate their story. They could also go further and create a big book with all of their different stories.

VI: I would assess students on their participation.

What is an Adjective?

An adjective is a word that serves to modify a noun or pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying its specific characteristics. Essentially, the purpose of an adjective is to answer the following questions:

• How many are there?
• What kind is it?
• Which one is it?
• Color, sizes, sounds, shapes, taste, touch, qualities, time

-a- able adorable adventurous acidic afraid aggressive aggreeable ajar alert alive amazing amused amusing ancient ashamed attractive average awesome awful -b- bad beautiful beneficial better best big bite-sized bitter black black-and-white blushing boiling bouncy brave breakable brief bright broken brown bumpy bustling busy -c- calculating calm careful careless caring charming chubby cheap cheerful clean clear closed cloudy clumsy cluttered cold colorful comfortable concerned cool cooperative coordinated courageous crazy creepy

crooked crowded cuddly cumbersome curly curvy cute -d- damaged dangerous dark dazzling dead deep defiant delicious delightful delirious descriptive deserted disastrous disgusting dreary different difficult dirty distinct dizzy drab dry dull -e- eager early easy elated elderly elegant embarrassed empty enchanted enchanting energetic envious equal even evil excellent excited exciting expensive extra-large extra-small -f- fair familiar famous fancy far far-flung fast fat fearful fearless filthy fine first flaky

flat flimsy fluffy foolish frail free fresh friendly frightened frightening full fumbling funny fuzzy -g- giant gigantic gifted glamorous gleaming glistening glorious good gorgeous graceful grateful gray great greedy green grotesque gruesome grumpy gullible -h- handy happy hard hard-to-find hateful healthy heavenly heavy helpful helpless hideous high homely horrible hot hungry husky -i- icky icy ignorant ill-fated ill-informed impolite important incredible infamous insidious intelligent interesting irritating itchy

-j- jealous jittery jolly joyous juicy jumpy -k- keen kind kindly -l- lame large last late lazy lean light limping little long long-term loose loud lovely loving low lucky lumpy -m- magnificent marvelous mammoth massive meaty meek mellow melodic messy milky miniature misty modern motionless mountainous muddy mundane murky mushy mysterious -n- narrow natural naughty near neat new next nice nimble nippy noisy normal nutritious nutty

-o- obedient obese odd old old-fashioned open orange ordinary outgoing outrageous outstanding -p- pale paltry perfect plain plastic pleasant polite poised poor powerful precious pretty precious previous pricey prickly proud puny purple pushy puzzled puzzling -q- quaint quick quiet quirky -r- rapid rare real red remarkable rich rigid right ripe roasted robust rotten rough round rude -s- sad safe scared scary scrawny second second-hand selfish serious

sharp shiny short shrill shy sick silent silky silly simple simplistic skinny sleepy slim slimy slippery slow small smart smoggy smooth soft solid sophisticated sore sour sparkling spicy spiffy spiteful spotless spotted square stale steep sticky stingy stormy strange straight striped strong stupendous stupid sturdy substantial super superb superficial sweet -t- tall tame tan tart tasty tedious tender tense terrific testy thankful thin third thirsty thoughtful tidy tight

tiny tired tough tremendous tricky troubled truthful -u- ugly unequal uneven unhealthy unique unkempt unknown unnatural unruly unsightly untidy unused unusual unwieldy unwritten upset used useful useless -v- valuable vast victorious violet vivacious -w- warm watery wealthy weak weary well-groomed well-made well-off well-to-do wet white whole wicked wide wide-eyed wiggly wild windy witty wonderful wooden worried wrong -y- yellow young yummy -z- zany zealous zesty

List of Descriptive Adjectives
List of Descriptive Adjectives
Descriptive adjectives can be divided into different catcan be divided into different categories such as colors, sizes, sound, taste, touch, shapes, qualities, time, ages and also personality adjectives